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Table 20:Other key stakeholders relevant to the NASStakeholderSwaziland CaneGrowersAssociation(SCGA)Swaziland SugarMillers Association(SSMA)Royal SwazilandSugar Corporation(RSSC)Ubombo SugarDescription / relevance to the NASThe local sugar industry derives its structure from the Sugar Act of 1967. TheSCGA is a professional body that represents cane growers. It is one of themain bodies represented in the SSAs Council, together with the SwazilandSugar Millers Association.Professional body that represents cane millers. It is one of the main bodiesrepresented in the SSAs Council, together with the Swaziland Cane GrowersAssociation.Sugar company that owns two sugar mills and estates, one in Simunye andone in Mhlume. In its Simunye installations it also has a distillery. It has anestate in Simunye and another in Mhlume, receives cane from cane growers inthe vicinity, including from the KDDP scheme, but also from the Malkerns area.Its milling capacities had to expand to accommodate cane from the KDDPdevelopments. In the 2008/09 season it produced 183,843 tonnes of sugar inits Mhlume mill and 233,557 tonnes of sugar in its Simunye mill. The distilleryproduced 25,853 million litres of ethanol in 2009.Currently RSSC provides and manages housing and related infrastructure forits employees and their dependants and apart from direct employees, a further25,000 people live on the estates.The group provides education for 2,500 children at two private primary schools,supported by a further three high and four primary schools. The group is also afounder and stakeholder in Mananga College, a private high school.The RSSC provides subsidised health care at two clinics run by qualifieddoctors and nurses, It has a safety, health and environmental policy aiming forideal working conditions, safeguarding those affected by the operations ofRSSC and ensuring the maintenance of a clean and healthy environment.HIV/AIDS is recognised as a strategic business issue and is managed throughan HIV/AIDS Tripartite Committee in which management, the workers unionand the staff association are represented. A coordinator facilitates allprogrammes and related issues. Two voluntary counselling and testing (VCT)centres at Mhlume and Simunye were established jointly with NERCHA in2003. Free anti-retroviral treatment became available for employees in 2004through NERCHA from the Global Fund. An ongoing campaign encouragesemployees to test for HIV for early diagnosis, prevention, care and support.Sugar mill and estate located in Big Bend. It is owned by the South Africancompany Illovo and Tibiyo TakaNgwane. It has an estate, and receives canefrom cane growers in the vicinity, including from the LUSIP schemes. Its millingcapacities are to expand to accommodate cane from the LUSIP developments.In the 2008/2009 season it produced 209,584 tonnes of sugar.Ubombo’s employment conditions include medical care for employees andtheir dependents. It implements an HIV/AIDS policy and a comprehensivesystem of primary health care. The company owns and manages a 40-bedhospital to serve employees and the Big Bend community. Quality safety,health and environment obligations are observed, and both the milling andagricultural divisions are accredited to ISO 9001:2000 and NOSA.The company supports a primary school and two high schools that are run bySwaziland Educational Project, with subvention from the company. There is anemployee home ownership scheme, and a township has been declared in thearea where some of the company houses will be sold with priority given toemployees.RDMU (Strategic Environmental Assessment of the National Adaptation Strategy) - Page 149