The National Wool Grower’s Associations of South Africa (NWGA) was founded during a Wool Conference in Middleburg on 26 May 1926 to collectively represent the wool farmers in the country and to work together to improve all aspects of the industry.   Since then, the NWGA has developed into a countrywide organization, consisting of 6 Area Branches and more than 1 000 sub branches.  The NWGA is a mechanism for wool farmers to have a close link with the institutions that buy and process their wool; with government programmes and policies that impact on their industry; with universities and research institutes; and with wool farmers and organisations all over the world.

The National Wool Growers Association is a national commodity structure formed by commercial and communal wool sheep farmers in South Africa with the purpose of collectively representing the wool farmers in the country and to integrate, in a single representative structure, the development requirements of the sector.

The NWGA boast a voluntary membership of approximately 20 000 of which 15 000 are black communal- and emerging farmers.  Their focus is on the wool farmer, small or big and his / her interests and consequently the voice of the wool farmer is heard on numerous boards, agricultural boards, agricultural unions and committees within organised agriculture, fully representing the nation's farming community.  The reputation of the NWGA is built upon the constant quality service offered to its members.

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