David and Goliath: Dept of Agric-supported counterfeiters messing with wrong lady

A story of exposing skullduggery of the worst kind – where a patented and design protected product owned by a small business has been counterfeited by tenderpreneurs and knowingly purchased by the South African State. But in Groenvoer's co-owner Cathy Khoury-Prinsloo, the crooks are messing with the wrong person. She hired a patent lawyer and is determined to see the matter through to its ultimate conclusion. Having been a former colleague of hers, from what I know of Cathy, there will only be one winner in this scrap. And it won't be the public servants and the crooked cohorts they are protecting. – Alec Hogg

State capture and corruption at state entities like Eskom have garnered the headlines, but graft has infected many corners of the state's fabric. This is underscored in this BizNews interview with Cathy Khoury-Prinsloo, an entrepreneur in the agriculture sector.

Khoury-Prinsloo tells BizNews founder and former colleague Alec Hogg how her patented product was stolen by individuals looking to score a government department contract. And, although there is overwhelming evidence of intellectual property theft and other contract-related skullduggery, officials have failed to 'fess up and make good on the wrongs'.

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