After catastrophic floods, Minister Nomakhosazana Meth introduced a mysterious investor to the farm without any due diligence
The government has not investigated the collapse of the once state-of-the-art government-funded Mantusini Dairy Farm near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape.
In 2007 Uvimba Bank invested R2-million to build milking infrastructure, an irrigation system and a standby generator. The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform also erected a 13 km fence to the value of R1-million. The Mantusini Dairy Trust referred us to a man named Sihle Ntuli whom they say was the intermediary between Cream Top and the Trust. Ntuli, who describes himself as"a conglomerate businessman", said he could not divulge details of the company because he had signed a non-disclosure agreement.
One of Ntuli's interventions was to introduce a farmer from Kokstad in KZN, Bernard Keel, to help the community. The Trust's chair now blames Amadlelo Agri and Cream Top for ruining the farm. But he acknowledged that the trust and its members were"lost" without the technical support provided by Amadlelo Agri.
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