Tagged: apartheid

1. 01 The trade The trade · 20 May 2026 The Board That Owned Rooibos for Forty Years From 1954 to 1993, one government board was the only legal buyer and the only legal seller of rooibos in South Africa, and it built that monopoly on a rule that quietly shut coloured growers out. Here is how that came to be, and what it left behind.
2. 02 The trade The trade · 12 Feb 2026 The Biggest Rooibos Market on Earth Never Grew a Single Bush For nearly sixty years the country that bought and resold more rooibos than any other on earth was Germany, which cannot grow a stem of it. How a health-food house sold the tea under a Kilimanjaro logo, how Hamburg became the trade's logistics hub, and why Japan finally took the crown.
3. 03 The trade · 23 Jan 2026 The Red Bush Two Different Histories Both Call Home In South Africa's Cederberg, white Afrikaans commercial growers and coloured smallholders come from opposite sides of the region's history, yet both point to the same fact, that rooibos grows nowhere else on Earth, as the reason they themselves belong to this land.
4. 04 The trade The trade · 26 Nov 2025 Japan Boycotted Apartheid and Bought the Rooibos Anyway How the red bush reached what is now its largest market, straight through a contradiction the trade was built on.