FARMERS UP IN ARMS AGAINST TONGAAT

Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Huletts Zimbabwe is in the eye of a storm after it used sugar cane export proceeds for more than 1 000 indigenous farmers in Chiredzi without their permission. The firm was reportedly paid US$52 million in January for sucrose exports by the Zimbabwe Sugar Sales (ZSS), which markets and receives payment for all the sugar sold on the local and international