• Two women with links to Daybreak have been summonsed to appear in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Courts in Pretoria.
• Daybreak is owned by the Public Investment Corporation.
• The company has been mired in controversy after a string of executives were fired. Its former CEO won a case to be reinstated.

Two women with links to the state-owned chicken producer Daybreak Farms have been summonsed to appear in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court (SCCC) this week.

Fin24 has seen court documents which summons Mathaphelo More, 49, and Votelwa Majola, 46, to appear in the SCCC in Pretoria on 25 February.

Daybreak's chair Lerato Nage referred Fin24 to the Company Secretary Kgabo Mapotsa, who confirmed on Monday that the company had laid the charges against the two women. Mapotsa said it relates to alleged fraud, corruption, money laundering and theft at Daybreak.

"This is an unfolding story and other former employees could still be charged," said Mapotsa.

Majola said she is currently still the head of human capital at Daybreak Farms. She told Fin24 on Friday that she does not want to comment on the matter, since the situation with Daybreak has become "very complicated" and the court process has to run its course. She referred Fin24 to her legal representative, Rupert Candy of Rupert Candy Attorneys Inc.

More is Daybreak's former head of internal audit, and was also the company's technical executive until she was suspended by the board in mid-February 2021. At the time, the...

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