Our global headquarters in Johannesburg (South Africa), manages all our Sappi Paper & Packaging, Sappi Pulp and Sappi Forests. A number of regional functions like finance, human resources, sales and marketing, technical and engineering as well as board functions are also based here.
Sappi was formed in South Africa in 1936 to serve South African consumers with local produced paper. We have a tradition of innovating and developing new products to meet local demand for newsprint, graphic papers, packaging papers, containerboard - used to protect our customers’ products (especially in the agricultural sector) - and tissue paper for household, medical and industrial use in the Southern Africa region.
Almost all of the production of our mills in South Africa is exported. Sappi Southern Africa operates five mills and has a combined production capacity of 86,000 m³ sawn timber, 660,000 tons of paper, 636,000 tons of paper pulp and 1.15 million tons of dissolving wood pulp per annum.
Meet the South African leadership team
Graeme Wild *
Qualifications: BSc (Forestry), MBA
James Manana
Qualifications: BA (Human Resources Management), Advanced Diploma (Labour Law), Institute of People Management Diploma, Leadership Development Programme
Pramy Moodley
Qualifications: BAcc, CA(SA), PMD
Tebele Maketha
Qualifications: LLB, LLM (Commercial Law) / MS Administrative Sciences
Beverley Sukhdeo
Qualifications: BSc (Chemistry), MBA, DBA
Naresh Naidoo
Qualifications: BSc (Chemical Engineering), MBA
Gareth Cloete
Qualifications: BA (Accounting)
Duane Roothman
Qualifications: BSc (Forestry), MBA
Morgan Moodley
Qualifications: BCompt (AGA SA)
Our mills
Explore our South African operations
Tugela Mill
De Tugela-molen is sinds 1945 in bedrijf en is momenteel de oudste speciaal gebouwde molen in de Sappi-groep. De fabriek produceert neutrale sulfiet semi-chemische pulp voor eigen gebruik, golfmateriaal (containerboard) en lignosulfonaat voor export.
Ngodwana Mill
Ngodwana Mill has been in operation since 1966 and entered the dissolving wood pulp (DP) market in 2013 with the conversion of part of the mill’s paper-grade pulp production to DP production.
Saiccor Mill
Saiccor Mill, a Sappi Pulp facility, produces world-class products in South Africa, where technology and infrastructure meet global demands. It is located 50 km south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
Stanger Mill
Stanger Mill is unique in South Africa in that it uses bagasse as its basic raw material in the manufacture of office paper and tissue paper. Situated along the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal, the mill is ideally situated to take advantage of the ready supply of bagasse from the neighbouring Gledhow Sugar Company.