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Wasted SA aid
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
By Peta Thornycroft
Independent Foreign Service
Harare
South African taxpayers gift of R300 million to Zimbabwe was a waste of money and some of it is being misused for the benefit of President Robert Mugabe's cronies in Zanu PF.
The donation - or aid - was announced late last year by finance minister Trevor Manuel who pledged the gift would only be handed over after an internationally- recognised government of national unity was formed. President Kgalema Motlanthe repeated this assurance.
But suddenly and mysteriously the aid was transformed into a Southern African Development Community ( SADC) aid package.
An instant SADC foundation, the Zimbabwe Development Assistance Framework, was formed to channel agricultural inputs to Zimbabwean farmers.
This framework is still not yet fully operational and its impartiality has been questioned.
The aid began moving into the country before Christmas.
It is mostly seed, fertiliser and fuel from South African companies and
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