Fear lessl y the tr uth 16 Desember 2011
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Tzaneen het ook ‘n indrukwekkende Kersliggiehuis. Me Lecia Jacobs het haar huis in
Aqualaan in ‘n towerwêreld van kleurvolle liggies en ligbeelde omgeskep en inwoners van
die dorp geniet dit om dié feëtjiewêreld te gaan bekyk en veral ook vir hul kinders te wys.
Tea goofer Louis Roux
louis@bulletin.us.com
A new chapter of drama and controversy slumbers in the slopes of Magoebaskloof, where a dishonoured agreement threatens to derail the redevelopment of the ‘Sapekoe’ tea estate. An alleged breach of agreement by the implementing agent of the development, the Greater Tzaneen Economic Development Agency (Gteda) against a strategic partner, Limpopo Green Estate Holdings, forced the latter to abandon the project and swop Limpopo for Mpumalanga. After at least twelve years of intensive research in America, Mr Roger Duffield of Limpopo Green undertook to produce an extract from the fresh tea leaves
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‘New’ Sapekoe might be in trouble yet again
(known as catechin) which is used against pandemic diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/Aids. He spent more than R2 million in Tzaneen after an agreement with Gteda and the Limpopo department of agriculture, to be included in the revival project. The proposed extraxt project was said to bring in millions of Rand for the Greater Tzaneen area, as well as employment for hundreds of jobless Makgoba labourers. Six months ago Duffield discovered that “I was dishonourably excluded from Gteda’s plans”. He moved to Nelspruit and now has his own tea plantation to continue the catechin project. Duffield says he is entitled to take Gteda to court, but at this stage he is concentrating on his new venture. He did not deny that legal action might follow.
However, should Sapekoe decide to apply his extract process on their own, it wil definitely end up in court. The Bulletin desperately tried to get hold of Gteda’s CEO, Mr Kwena Maphoto, but according to his office he was on a team building mission in Mpumalanga. He did not answer his telephone. We spoke to the estate manager, Mr Francis Mnisi, but he referred us to Maphoto. Exactly one year ago the Bulletin reported on the progress in the upliftment of the tea estate and millions of Rand being granted by the department of labour, the new caretaker of the 1 200 ha estate. Labour MEC Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba was quoted as saying she believed the “tea extract” project was sustainable after she had insight in a feasibility study on the future of Sapekoe.