Mysterious disappearance of funds and assets, officials indifferent to, or conniving in, financial mismanagement, protracted and tangled court battles and crippling community conflicts besetting what should be one of South Africa’s top irrigation schemes, are symptomatic of what’s keeping the entire eastern region of the Eastern Cape impoverished...
Farmer’s Weekly’s efforts to get to the bottom of the Qamata irrigation scheme’s failure to rise from the ashes, despite millions of rand being lavished on its revival, have raised more disturbing questions than answers – including why Eastern Cape MEC Gugile Nkwinti appears reluctant to heed an auditor’s recommendation for a forensic probe into the scheme’s finances. Stephan Hofstätter investigates the root of the rot...
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