Kalahari Crown Exports — Year 1–2 Operational & Cash Ramp Detail

The Year 1–2 operational and cash-ramp detail — the capital deployment by year and the liquidity headroom through the early development phase.

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Year 1–2 Operational & Cash Ramp Detail

The Year 1–2 operational and cash-ramp detail — the capital deployment by year and the liquidity headroom through the early development phase.

Because the development phase is the period of greatest execution and
liquidity risk, this section provides additional granularity on the
first two years. Capital deployment is front-loaded and
milestone-linked, while revenue builds gradually from the first
commercial harvest.

9A.1 Capital Deployment by Year

Capex phasing Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4–7 (maint.)
Capital deployed (Rm) 1,099 669 382 239 563

Approximately 46% of project capital is deployed in the pre-operating
development year (Year 0), with the balance phased through Years 1–3 as
packhouses, cold storage and the logistics fleet are commissioned to
match expanding production.

9A.2 Liquidity Headroom

The funding structure is deliberately sized so that the closing cash
balance never falls below approximately R78 million (the Year-3 trough),
preserving comfortable liquidity headroom throughout the ramp. The
revolving working-capital facility provides additional flexibility to
fund the seasonal build of inventory and receivables during each packing
campaign.

Figure 19.
Figure 19. Liquidity is preserved throughout the development and ramp-up phase.

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