Zuma wife's R2.6 million Nkandla vegetable co-op facility gathers dust

A multimillion-rand vegetable packhouse built for a women's co-operative run by President Jacob Zuma's wife Sizakele MaKhumalo Zuma is an empty shell more than three months after construction was completed.

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The packhouse, about 500m from the president's R246-million Nkandla residence, was built by the KwaZulu-Natal department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs for the Qedisimo Sendlala Co-operative. Qedisimo Sendlala (putting an end to hunger) was started by MaKhumalo in 2010 to help women in the poverty-stricken KwaNxamalala village to produce their own food. The co-op is made up of 15 women from the president's village. More...