MAIZE donated to alleviate hunger by sugar producing company Tongaat Hullet in the famine ravaged Masvingo province, has become the new frontier for fierce ZANU-PF succession wars amid reports that party big shots are jostling for the right to distribute it.
Tongaat Hullet donated 1 300 tonnes of maize which it produced under its winter maize project last month for purposes of boosting food security in the province where at least 700 000 people were in urgent need of food aid by March following an unprecedented El Nino induced drought which saw much of the crop failing across the country.
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