"Our vegetables were rotting and we made a request to the department to build us a packhouse, but I don't know when it would be opened as there is still no water and electricity."

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

By News on the Net Times Live——Bio and Archives--July 24, 2015

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.

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...

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