The farms bought by the eThekwini Municipality from Rainbow Chicken two years ago to save and create jobs have been left barren.
The city spent R15million on the acquisition of Uitkomst and Doornrug farms in Cato Ridge when Rainbow Chicken, which has since been renamed RCL Foods Limited, announced the sale of their farms due to tough trading conditions.
The DA conducted an oversight inspection this week and found the farms were neglected and falling apart. The party’s premier candidate Zwakele Mncwango said the municipality had not lived up to its plan and failed the employees of RCL Foods who were left jobless when the farm was shut down.
About 1350 workers lost their jobs than when the farms were sold.
“Many people who used to work here are languishing in poverty without jobs whilst an establishment that cost millions of rand is lying there, deserted”, said Mncwango.
“I suspect the transaction was not intended to save job
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