Zanu-PF rallies earn Mugabe's dairy big money
The on-going Zanu-PF youth rallies have been a windfall to Alpha Omega Dairy Private Limited owned by President Robert Mugabe's family as the youth league is reportedly buying from it all dairy products being dished out at the party's gatherings.
Alpha Omega, a multi-million-dollar business located in Mazowe, is a subsidiary of the first family's business empire, Gushungo Holdings. Investigations by the ZImbabwean Newspaper Daily News revealed that the youth league is paying for the dairy products; yoghurts and ice creams which are consumed at the rallies.
The products are distributed for free to the masses attending the rallies.
So far, Mugabe has held well-attended rallies, dubbed presidential youth interface meetings in seven provinces, implying that the company has so far made quite some substantial amount of money from the sales.
At the Midlands rally in Gweru last Friday, First Lady Grace Mugabe told the gathering that she had brought $15 000 worth of ice cream to feed the gathering, claims which were repeated by national political commissar for the youth league, Innocent Hamandishe.
Zanu-PF youth league national secretary for finance, Tongai Kasukuwere, confirmed that the ice cream was paid for, but said provinces do so out of their own will to support the first family's dairy firm.
