GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- Bagasse - Bagasse is a fibrous co-product of the sugar crushing process which can be used as an ingredient in the production of animal feeds, or burnt to generate electricity
- Bulk infrastructure - The large-scale roads, sewerage, water, electrical and drainage works necessary to enable a land holding to be converted from agricultural to other, higher value usage
- CDP - Carbon Disclosure Project
- CRDU - Cane and Rural Development Unit (in South Africa)
- Developable hectares - The area of a land holding left over after deducting areas not available for development, such as very steep, geologically unstable or environmentally sensitive land. These hectares will carry both sites that can be sold as well as roads, parks and other amenities
- ESOP - Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Ethanol - Ethanol is pure alcohol, produced through the fermentation of sugar
- EU - European Union
- FIFR - Fatality Injury Frequency Rate
- GHG emissions - Greenhouse gas emissions
- Glucose - Glucose is a simple sugar found in plants
- Greenfield enterprises - Starting a new business venture from scratch
- Gross hectares - The total area of a land holding, defined by a line around it’s boundary
- Land conversion - The activity, consciously and proactively undertaken by Tongaat Hulett, of moving appropriate components of its land holdings from an agricultural land use to other uses in order to create and realise value for a range of its stakeholders
- Land development - An activity within the land conversion process that includes the installation of services to a land holding, its establishment as a township and the sale of individual subdivisional stands, sometimes with a range of additional value-adding services provided to the buyer
- LTIs - Lost Time Injuries
- LTIFR - Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate
- Molasses - Molasses is a viscous co-product of the process of refining sugarcane
- MSOP - Management Share Ownership Plan
- Renewable energy - Renewable energy is as energy that comes from natural resources which are organically replenished • RSE - Raw Sugar Equivalent
- SADC - Southern African Development Community
- Shovel ready land - The status of an element of the land portfolio where environmental (EIA), zoning and subdivisional permissions are sufficiently advanced that it is assessed that, within a short space of time (generally around six months or less), physical work on both infrastructure and buildings could be commenced. A key consideration in the ability to realise optimum value from a particular land holding
- Sorbitol - Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol which is produced through the reduction of glucose
- SRI Index - Socially Responsible Investment index of the JSE Limited
- Sucrose - Sucrose is table sugar (or cane sugar or beet sugar)
