NYG Estate

Nestled in a valley about 25km before Chipinge town you will find the picturesque New Year’s Gift Estate. The majestic mountain range surrounding New Year’s Gift somehow lends a protective feeling to the estate which is well known for a certain ‘special energy’ and a sense of peace and tranquillity.

New Year’s Gift, an intensive conservation area, was first purchased in 1924. The early years concentrated mainly on Tea and Coffee. However, due to poor world prices and water shortages for irrigation, these were stopped. Macadamia was soon started and the estate now deals in macadamia. The first macadamia trees are starting to reach maturity and this motivated the building of a macadamia pack shed that began being operational in 2020. Tanganda’s macadamia project saw a busy 2020, with another massive investment made in razor-wire fencing to protect macadamia and avocados, on all estates. 58km of razor wire was invested overall for all the plantations. 

2 - Macs Aerial
2 - Mature Mac Trees
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4 - Razor Wire Protecting Macs
Packed Macs

The meandering Tanganda river supplies the water for irrigation which is gravity fed via a concrete furrow system into an underground pipe network throughout the estate.  
Fact check
  • Latitude: 20° 05’ 42” S
  • Longitude: 32° 34’ 32” E
  • Average Altitude: 785m
  • Rainfall, average annual: 600mm
  • Temperature: Min 13.2°C & Max 29.8°C
  • Year first established: 1924
  • Macadamia: 264.2ha
  • Beef Cattle: 349
  • Irrigation Canal from Tanganda River
  • Facilities: Nursery and Primary Schools, Beer hall, small shop, clinic

NYG holds Tanganda’s breeding herd of 349 head of cattle as well as a small dairy. The cattle are supplementary fed in the winter months with silage, ryegrass, and rhodes grass.  

Whilst all estates have their own workshops New Year’s Gift has a large Central Workshop handling all fabrication and machining capable of sharpening, repairing, or manufacturing almost anything. This central workshop is responsible for the sharpening of all the tea CTC cutters ensuring cutting and processing of the tea is always up to Tanganda’s high standard.

For entertainment, there are various sporting activities which include soccer, netball, volleyball, tug-O-war, and darts. The estate’s football team, the New Year’s Gift Wolves, have made it into the ZIFA Division 3 league.

All in all New Year’s Gift Estate together with its inhabitants are actually more than a community, they are one large family.

NYG in Pictures

Addington Bexley Chinake

Board Chairman

Addington is a legal practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in legal services in Zimbabwe. Over the past thirty years his area of specialization has been corporate and commercial law, including mining law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. Addington continues to be involved in a number of significant FDI transactions and disposals by foreign companies of equity on Zimbabwe Stock Exchange listed entities, financial institutions and major private transactions and Greenfield mining projects. Addington is a member of the International Bar Association and an advisor to the Judicial Service Commission and The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. He is a large benefactor to the Emerald Hill Children’s Home for the Deaf and Orphans as its Ambassador. Addington is a past Trustee of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and remains a Top Ranked Commercial Lawyer in Zimbabwe by Chambers and Partners. Addington has sat on the boards of other publicly listed companies and is the current Chairman of Innscor Africa Limited and Simbisa Brands Limited. He is a member of the Innscor Group Remuneration and Nominations Committees.