When Chief Justice Raymond Zondo turned to the Vrede Integrated Dairy Project in Part Six, Volume One of his report from the State Capture Commission of Inquiry, he made a passing mention of Nongqawuse, the Xhosa prophet who in 1856, during the British onslaught, said the dead would rise if people destroyed their crops and killed their cattle. The rewards never materialised and the destruction is believed to have aided the colonisers.
Zondo’s report makes clear that local Vrede farmers and black economic empowerment were used as a veneer to loot, in a similar fashion to the R1-billion Free State housing project and R255-million asbestos removal project, with many of the same protagonists playing key roles in each story of malfeasance.
Estina had R16 in its bank account before the Free State department of agriculture and rural development gave it a R30-million prepayment for the Vrede project in June 2012. The prepayment was arranged by Zwane. At the time, Estina had just one director, Kamal Vasram, a sales manager at the Gupta family’s Sahara Computers.“The company had no experience whatsoever in farming, never mind milk farming, or the crucial milk processing prior to its appointment.
The lack of experience showed. Dairy cows started dying and the way Estina disposed of the carcasses was environmentally hazardous. The contract with Estina was cancelled in 2014 after questions were raised, but the Free State government continued to pay the company until 2016, with Thabethe claiming the company had met key performance targets.
“Funds were pumped into Estina — not the Agri-BEE or special purpose vehicle. The exclusion of beneficiaries is a strange phenomenon because the project would have been set up to benefit them in the first place. They ought to have been identified, registered and even employed in the project from the onset. The project was supposed to have been theirs.”
Orange time . 25 years . Heh heh
NPA_Prosecutes npa how can you retweet such things? Are you really impartial in your duties though?
Surely the disgraced public protector Mkhwebane should be investigated too for her part in covering up and exonerating the culprits ?
Morally bankrupt
NPA_Prosecutes Ziyakhala and zisazo shuba blind blind🤞🏾
NPA_Prosecutes PhalaPhalaFarmGate silapha!
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Magashula claims he was sleeping in trenches fighting for black when the time comes to help poor people takes money to Guptas those who needs the money DOLOLO he must go and answer in the court if law where is money
African National Criminals MYANC
KhofuMoahloli Who came FIRST...THE PEOPLE or THESE PEOPLE?
The report says 'would' on the part of Ace Magashule! There's no evidence that link Magashule that's why Zondo use the word (would) Would - mean imaginary. Relax Ace Magashule may have been corrupt yes but there's no evidence.
Magashule_Ace but SG if you failed to protect the people of your province how are we supposed to trust you with the national interest when you have failed your own people in the free state?
MzwaneleManyi thereafter you have a nerve to say that you joined the young lions in 1976-06-16 yet you went to Vrede and found nothing. I repeat people that were in the Soweto upraising would have told the Guptas where to get off not to play majorettes for them.Sies🙈
Pity they cannot charge Manyi who went to view the project and declared it to be wonderful.
niehaus_carl what’s your opinion about the black farmers that were denied a lifetime opportunity by your friends in the so called revolutionary of stomach.
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