The North West government has failed in two months to convince one of the biggest employers and largest cheese factory to halt its planned relocation from a town paralysed by poor service delivery and factional battles for power.

So steadfast was dairy company Clover in its plans to relocate from Lichtenburg to Queensburgh in KwaZulu-Natal that the provincial government failed to secure a single meeting with the company in two months during its efforts to persuade them to stay...