The South African town of Dundee is best known as a tourist hotspot for history enthusiasts keen to visit the 19th century battlefields that surround it, such as Isandlwana and Blood River—both sites of historic Zulu bloodshed.
But this town of 35,000 people in the eastern state of KwaZulu-Natal is also home to the country's largest family-owned dairy, which participates in a pioneering scheme to use milk and other dairy products that might otherwise be wasted to address deep social challenges—including gender-based violence.
Established 90 years ago with a herd of just seven Jersey cows, today Orange Grove Dairy maintains five distribution centres across South Africa and competes nationally for market share with multinationals such as Parmalat and Nestle.
According to Jabulani Khanyile, a director at Orange Grove, while the company could sell dairy goods returned unsold by retailers in discount stores as its more famous competitors often do, it instead donates them to Dundee's local crisis centre, along with products that have not reached specifications to make them eligible for sale but remain consumable.
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