Sigwele blow

Efforts to save Delta Dairies from going under the hammer hit a snag on Friday as the Lobatse High Court ordered that the citizen milk producing company should be liquidated.

This means that the company will be wound down and put under auction for any interested buyers.  In February the company was placed under provisional liquidation following a high court petition by nine of its creditors.

The petition revealed that Delta Dairies owed Tswana Fuel and eight other companies close to P10 million in respect of services provided to the company, founded by  citizen Dr Howard Sigwele. When the matter resumed last week, attorney representing Delta Dairies, Muller Keganne, who stood on behalf of Nancy Kiggundu, requested the high court to postpone the judgement for 30 days, stating that there were ongoing negotiations between the Delta Dairies and the creditors.

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A step in the right direction

It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...

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