No milk for 300,000 pupils, again

Flash back: VP Mompati Merafhe opening Delta Dairies in 2009
Flash back: VP Mompati Merafhe opening Delta Dairies in 2009

Citizen founded milk plant, Delta Dairies, the brain-child of local, Howard Sigwele, has closed down again after clinching a new P68 million tender to supply 300 000 primary school pupils with milk.

The lucrative tender was won in February, for the whole of 2014, but the company has failed to deliver even a single carton of milk to schools. A few months ago it went down under, leaving 300,000 pupils across the country with no milk. The first supplies from the new tender were due to start in April, being a  tender for the supply of P25 million worth of milk to the schools.

The Monitor can reveal that primary school pupils had their last supply of milk in March this year, as government stores emptied their remaining stock in anticipation of fresh supplies from Delta Dairies.

Editor's Comment
Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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