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Specialist African fruit distribution

Fresh fruit,
rooted in Africa.

We connect South Africa's finest fruit producers with the growing markets of sub-Saharan Africa. Premium Apples, Pears and more — picked at peak, packed to spec, delivered cold and on time.

10+
African nations served
9
SA provinces
30+
Varieties year-round
Actively distributing toCape Town
CPT · ORIGIN
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Who we are

A specialist African fruit distribution company. From Cape Orchards to the whole continent.

10+
Export markets
12
Months / year
30+
Apple & pear varieties
100%
Africa focus

A network across ten+ African nations.

We trade beyond a postcode — from anchor southern markets we know intimately, to a wider continental network and every province at home in South Africa.

AO · Anchor
01
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Angola

A fast-growing economy with strong demand for quality imports — particularly in Luanda's expanding modern retail sector.

RoadRetail
NA · Anchor
02
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Namibia

Our closest neighbour and a key anchor market. Windhoek and coastal retailers receive consistent supply via refrigerated road freight from the Western Cape.

RoadRetailWholesale
CD · Anchor
03
↗
DR Congo

One of Africa's most populous nations. Kinshasa's premium fruit demand is served through our specialised cold-chain logistics partnerships.

AirCold ChainUrban
ZW · Heritage
04
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Zimbabwe

A historic agricultural nation with deep appreciation for quality produce. We supply Harare and Bulawayo through trusted road corridors.

RoadWholesaleInstitutional
BW · Stable
05
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Botswana

One of Africa's most stable economies. Gaborone's retail landscape welcomes consistent high-quality supply through our Limpopo road corridor.

RoadSupermarketsHotels
ZM · 06
Southern Africa
Zambia
MZ · 07
Southern Africa
Mozambique
GA · 08
Central Africa
Gabon
CG · 09
Central Africa
Republic of Congo
CM · 10
Central Africa
Cameroon
CI · 11
West Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
GN · 12
West Africa
Guinea
SN · 13
West Africa
Senegal
TG · 14
West Africa
Togo
GH · 15
West Africa
Ghana
MR · 16
West Africa
Mauritania
TN · 17
North Africa
Tunisia
South Africa · 09

Every province. Cape-led.

We supply retailers and wholesalers across all nine provinces — anchored by deep relationships and dedicated capacity in the Western Cape, where the fruit is grown.

Eastern CapeEC
Northern CapeNC
GautengGP
KwaZulu-NatalKZN
Free StateFS
MpumalangaMP
LimpopoLP
North WestNW

A full basket, all the way through.

Apples and pears are our depth. From those same Cape orchards: stone fruit by cultivar, every major citrus family, table grapes, avocados, berries — year-round, on-spec, cold-chain tight.

Crate of freshly picked nectarines FIG. 03 Elgin · Ceres · Vyeboom

From orchard to pallet,
without compromise.

Apples

18 cultivars
Royal Gala Granny Smith Pink Lady Golden Delicious Cripps Pink Cripps Red Fuji Braeburn Kanzi Starking Sundowner Rosy Glow Flash Gala African Red Big Bucks Topred Red Apple Early Red One

Pears

8 cultivars
Packham's Triumph Forelle Williams Bon Chrétien Abate Fetel Beurré Bosc Rosemarie Cheeky Doyenné du Comice

Stone Fruit

20 cultivars

Plums

5
Angeleno Sunec Black Diamond Fortune Laetitia

Nectarines

6
Copacabana Garcima Sunec 21 Flariba Alpine Royal Glo

Peaches

6
Garcima Supect 16 Transvalia Sweet Dream Rich Lady Novadonna

Pomegranates

3
Wonderful Herskovitz Acco

Citrus

23 cultivars

Oranges

7
Navel Valencia Cambria's Delta Midknights Late Navel Cara Cara

Soft Citrus

12
Clementine Nadorcott Nova Mandarin Minneola Tambor Tango Valley Gold Winolas MOR Satsuma Murcott

Lemons & Grapefruit

4
Eureka (Lemon) Seedless Lemon Star Ruby (Grapefruit) Marsh (Grapefruit)

Table Grapes

19 cultivars

Black Seedless

6
Midnight Beauty® Adora Seedless® Sable Seedless® Sweet Joy™ Sweet Sapphire™ Melody™

Red Seedless

7
Crimson Seedless Red Globe Scarlotta Seedless® Sweet Celebration® Timco™ Allison™ Jack's Solute™

White Seedless

6
Sugraone (Superior Seedless®) Autumn Crisp® Sweet Globe® Thompson Seedless Prime Cotton Candy™

Beyond the Orchard

12 items

Avocados

6
Hass Fuerte Pinkerton Maluma Edranol Ryan

Berries

2
Akala Blueberries Strawberries

Kiwi, Pineapple, Dates & more

4
Kiwi (Green & Yellow) Pineapples (Queen) Medjool Dates Vegetables & specialties on request

Always in season.

Southern Hemisphere harvests run January through August — perfectly complementing Northern Hemisphere supply windows and keeping African shelves stocked twelve months a year.

VarietyJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Royal Gala / Gala family
Golden Delicious
Granny Smith
Braeburn
Fuji
Pink Lady® / Cripps Pink
Joya® / Cripps Red
Kanzi
Starking / Red Delicious / Top Red
Sundowner / Rosy Glow
Williams Bon Chrétien
Rosemarie
Cheeky (blush pear)
Abate Fetel
Beurré Bosc
Packham's Triumph
Forelle
Doyenné du Comice
VarietyJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Nectarines (yellow flesh)
Nectarines (white flesh)
Peaches (yellow flesh)
Peaches (white flesh)
Clingstone peaches
Plums (red & black)
Plums (yellow)
Apricots
Pomegranates
VarietyJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Lemons (Eureka, Chemfree, Seedless)
Grapefruit (Star Ruby, Marsh)
Oranges — Navel family
Oranges — Valencia / Midknight
Soft Citrus — Satsuma / Clementine
Soft Citrus — Nadorcott / Tango
Soft Citrus — Nova / Murcott
VarietyJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
White Seedless — early (Sugraone, Prime)
White Seedless — mid-late (Autumn Crisp, Sweet Globe)
Red Seedless — early (Sweet Celebration, Timco)
Red Seedless — late (Crimson, Scarlotta, Allison)
Red Seeded (Red Globe)
Black Seedless (Midnight Beauty, Sable, Adora, Melody)
VarietyJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Blueberries (Fall Creek, UG varieties)
Strawberries
Full availability
Partial / shoulder
Out of season

Cape fruit. African heart.

Trusted growers and accredited packhouses in the Western Cape — Elgin, Grabouw, Ceres, Vyeboom — and exclusively fruit that meets our compliance and quality bar.

Pears on the branch in a Western Cape orchard FIG. 05A 33°S 19°E

Western Cape orchards.
The source of freshness.

01

Apples, pears & stone fruit — every major variety.

Sourced exclusively from certified producers in South Africa's premier fruit-growing regions, with traceability from block to box.

02

Unbroken cold chain

From packhouse coolrooms to final destination, the temperature chain is never broken — every pallet tracked, every degree monitored.

03

Food safety, no compromise

Supply partners are fully certified and accredited — full compliance with destination-market import requirements.

04

Long-term grower relationships

Multi-season partnerships with Western Cape farmers ensure consistent quality, fair pricing, and reliable volumes — year after year.

05

Always recruiting growers

If you grow premium apples, pears or stone fruit and want a consistent African home for your fruit, we'd like to meet.

From African farm to African table.

Every shipment tracked, every temperature monitored, every delivery on time. Four steps, three modalities, one accountable team end to end.

First light · Cape Town depot
We move trust across borders
Step 01

Source & pack

Fruit sourced from accredited Western Cape producers — graded, sorted and packed to destination spec.

Elgin · Ceres · Vyeboom
Step 02

Pre-cool & load

Pallets pre-cooled and loaded into refrigerated containers or reefer trucks within protocol time.

−0.5°C to +4°C
Step 03

Cross-border

Customs, phytosanitary certificates, and all documentation handled end-to-end by our compliance team.

Phyto · MRL · CoO
Step 04

Deliver & report

Delivered to specification with full traceability.

DDP · DAP · Ex Works
Road

Reefer trucks · SADC corridor

→
Sea

Containers · Cape Town

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Air

Cold-chain charter · Premium markets

↑

Built on trust, run on detail.

Behind every pallet is a promise — to the grower, to the buyer, and to the African shelves we keep stocked.

— Manifesto We don't sell fruit. We move trust across borders, in temperature-controlled containers, on a continent that deserves better than what's been built for it.
i.

Quality, no compromise

Premium fruit from accredited Cape farms, with traceability and food-safety standards that meet every destination market.

ii.

Africa-first

Our growth is the continent's growth. We invest in long-term African market relationships — not opportunistic shipments.

iii.

Reliability is the product

Right fruit, right market, right time. Every season, every shipment — your shelf is full when it should be.

iv.

Long partnerships

With growers, with retailers, with logistics partners. Trade relationships in Africa take years to build — we're built for that.

The people behind every delivery.

Operators, exporters, finance, warehouse — the people who carry the fruit, the paperwork, and the relationships that make this work.

Hannes Vorster
Operations
i
Hannes Vorster
Operations Director
Hans Koetsier
Finance
ii
Hans Koetsier
Financial Director
Gary Williams
Operations
iii
Gary Williams
Operations Manager
Pieter Vorster
Local Operations
iv
Pieter Vorster
Local Operations
Papama Ngxata
Cross Border
v
Papama Ngxata
Cross Border Operations
Ivan Kunz
Local Operations
vi
Ivan Kunz
Local Operations
Sibonokuhle Konyashe
Quality
vii
Sibonokuhle Konyashe
Quality & Stock Controller
Jaco Schade
Exports
viii
Jaco Schade
Export Operations
Sixolile Gobeni
Warehouse
ix
Sixolile Gobeni
Warehouse Operations
Arno Eigelaar
Finance
x
Arno Eigelaar
Accountant
Anchen Ismail
Finance
xi
Anchen Ismail
Finance Clerk
Get in touch

Let's grow Afrika
together.

Retailer? Wholesaler? Grower? Importer? We'd love to talk — every great African trade relationship starts with a conversation.

WhereEpping, Western Cape, ZA
Emailfinance@iamafrika.co.za
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