Delta Dairies to be liquidated

Going under: The milk company will be sold off to pay off creditors
Going under: The milk company will be sold off to pay off creditors

Dr Howard Sigwele, the citizen promoter of the milk company Delta Dairies, lost big yesterday at the High Court when justice Terence Rannowane ruled that the multi-million Pula company be liquidated.

Sigwele had tried in vain to stop the court from shutting down the company after it was put under provisional liquidation in August.

In granting orders that the milk company winds up, justice Rannowane said its finances were in a perilous state, and quoted various independent audit reports and numerous lawsuits filed by creditors against Sigwele’s company.

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