


“In the farming season 2011/2012 only R&G, CaneGrowers Transporters and Peacocks were awarded tenders to provide services to SusCo. It is alleged that MangwaQuip is partly owned by a prominent politician in Chiredzi East. However, we also noted that Mangwa Quip, CaneQuip and Amberlight also provided various services although there is no evidence to support that these companies responded to the SusCo tender or that they went through tender adjudication processes.” “In the farming season 2012/2013 only Large Data, Masden and R&G were awarded tenders to provide services to SusCo. The report went on to state that some SusCo sugarcane farmers (including Triangle employees) used or abused SusCo Triangle equipment (such as tractors and ploughing equipment) at their farms without following the proper and laid-down procedures.

Some sugarcane farmers obtained inputs under the SusCo Project using leased farms in violation of laid-down SusCo rules that stated that only sugarcane farm owners were the beneficiaries of this project. The report was based on information supplied by Triangle Limited, Hippo Valley Estates, SusCo Project staff and management and relevant third parties.Īccording to the report SusCo employees (some of whom were also sugarcane farmers) violated the Triangle policies by receiving farming inputs, especially fertilisers through the SusCo Project. The project costs were estimated to be US$7 million. The audit, by Ernst &Young, covered the period between 20. The syndicate, which capitalised on loopholes in the development of the aborted Successful Rural Sugarcane Farming Community Project (SusCo), also included banking sector officials, according to information obtained this week. Source: Looters run riot at sugar giant – The Zimbabwe IndependentĪ SYNDICATE comprising powerful politicians, bankers and workers looted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the agro-industrial giant Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ) after an attempt to launch a crucial project collapsed a few years ago, an audit report seen by the Zimbabwe Independent reveals.
