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.

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