Long-dormant packhouse on Nkandla’s doorstep could finally start operating
A vegetable packhouse that cost R2.5m for a women’s co-operative run by President Jacob Zuma’s wife Sizakele MaKhumalo Zuma‚ which stood dormant for three years‚ may finally be operational by the end of the year.The packhouse‚ on the doorstep of Zuma’s private Nkandla residence‚ was built by the KwaZulu-Natal department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs for the Qedisimo Sendlala Co-operative.It was built to help women from the poverty-stricken president’s KwaNxamalala village to produce their own food and sell it to the market.But squabbling between the department and the Nkandla municipality over who was responsible for the packhouse rendered it a white elephant after its completion.Now the municipality‚ which previously said it was responsible only for the building‚ has changed its tune and admitted it is the implementing agent for the project.The municipality originally claimed the packhouse was the responsibility of the provincial department of agriculture‚ the ...
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