A survey conducted by The Zimbabwean this week across supermarkets in the capital showed that a number of supermarkets were stocking dairy products from Grace Mugabe’s farm in Mazowe – a brazen challenge to Swiss food conglomerate, Nestle, which bowed to political pressure to stop buying milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate.
The country’s biggest supermarket chain, OK, was this week selling pints of fresh milk and sour milk under Mugabe's Alpha Omega brand.
Also being processed at the First Family’s farm is powdered milk, ice cream and various other products, which impeccable sources said will soon enter a market dominated by Nestle.
Zimbabwean blogger, Cynic Harare, observed that the packaging was “pretty dull”, but added: “It tastes like milk, which means it’s better than some stuff around. It’s a bit cheaper too.”
In a recent interview with the public media, President Robert Mugabe’s wife boasted that her dairy farm had 2,000 cows and was the second biggest in Southern Africa.
In 2009, after coming under pressure from rights activists who threatened to campaign for a boycott of Nestle products, Nestle announced it would stop buying milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate – built on a farm which was seized from a former commercial farmer.
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