Mugabe And Nestle

[Maritz]

Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, who has taken over at least six of Zimbabwe's most valuable white-owned farms since 2002, sells up to a million litres of milk a year to Nestlé, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Mr Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, his wife and a number of other figures linked to his administration are the subject of European Union and US sanctions as a result of their controversial 29-year rule over the once-prosperous country.

Nestlé, the multinational food company which is the biggest customer of Mrs Mugabe's dairy farm, is not obliged to comply with those sanctions as its headquarters are in Switzerland, but the country has its own set of measures, including against Mrs Mugabe, among which it "is forbidden to make funds available to persons mentioned, or put them, directly or indirectly, at their disposition". Nestlé denies that it has violated Swiss law.

Mrs Mugabe has built a new residence on the farm, remodelled the original farmhouse and constructed an office block, workers said. The dairy produces 6,500 litres of milk a day, The Herald has said, which is only about 35 per cent of its output under the previous owner, who produced 6.5 million litres a year, more than any other dairy in Zimbabwe.

Full story here : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/6235334/Grace-Mugabe-her-stolen-farm-and-how-she-supplies-Zimbawean-milk-to-Nestle-food-giant.html

[Maritz]

Nestle Pulls Out Of Grace Mugabe's Dairy Farm

Nestle has bowed to public pressure and has agreed to stop buying milk from Grace Mugabe's farms in Zimbabwe. The company said as from Sunday it will no longer be buying milk directly from Gushungo Dairy Estate. This will be seen as a victory for civil rights group AfriForum, which was urging an international boycott of Nestle products.

It gave the firm up until October 7th to stop buying milk from the estate, which was seized from its White owners in 2002. Nestle Zimbabwe said it was only purchasing the milk on a temporary basis to help prevent a deterioration in Zimbabwe's food supplies. The company said it was buying directly from Gushungo because the country's main milk marketing company was unable to. In a statement, Nestle said its announcement reflected its long term commitment to Zimbabwe.

Almost to good to be true !?! 

Source : http://www.ewn.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=23000