A new Board had been appointed on 28 September 2010 and a new Chairperson and Financial Director had also been appointed. Safcol still had a minority shareholding in four of the five companies which had been earmarked for privatisation, namely Siyaqhubeka Forests in KwaZulu-Natal, Amatole Forests in the Southern Eastern Cape, MTO Forestry in the Southern and Western Cape and Singisi Forest Products in the Eastern Cape. The sale of the fifth, Komatiland Forests, had been placed on hold by government. The total area under plantation was 124 000 hectares in South Africa and 140 000 hectares if one included the Mozambican operations through the Ifloma subsidiary.