Life in Tulbagh depends on its canning factory. Now it’s shutting down
GroundUp | 19.08.2026 17:57
For more than 70 years, life in the small Western Cape town of Tulbagh has centred on the fruit canning factory. The rhythm of the fruit seasons determined when people worked and earned, when shops were busy, and what food families could put on the table. Now the factory is facing closure, threatening not only thousands of jobs but a way of life that generations of people in the valley have built around it.
