Talk Radio 702 on Monday received dozens of calls and text messages calling for a boycott of Nestlé because its Zimbabwean operation is buying milk from a farm controlled by the country’s first lady.

It emerged at the weekend that Grace Mugabe is selling milk from six farms to Nestlé in Zimbabwe.

The company said it was forced into the move because other milk producers had shut down.

“It is not fair that they have taken six farms from people and Grace and Robert Mugabe are coining the money,” said one furious caller.

Nestlé South Africa says it is not officially linked to Nestlé in Zimbabwe.

The company’s Theo Mxakwe says the firm had no choice.

“By providing basic food products to Zimbabwean consumers [we] aimed to meet the needs of the local population and the other alternative was to move out of the country - had we decided to close down we would have triggered further food shortages and hundreds of job loses,” says Mxakwe.