In Zimbabwe, Survival Lies in Scavenging

Along a road in Matabeleland, barefoot children stuff their pockets with corn kernels that have blown off a truck as if the brownish bits, good only for animal feed in normal times, were gold coins

The New York Times

Standford Nhira, 62, a farmer in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe, survives on the meager diet of a few vegetables, wild fruit and insects.

In the dirt lanes of Chitungwiza, the Mugarwes, a family of firewood hawkers, bake a loaf of bread, their only meal, with 11 slices for the six of them. All devour two slices except the youngest, age 2. He gets just one.

And on the tiny farms here in the region of Mashonaland, once a breadbasket for all of southern Africa, destitute villagers pull the shells off wriggling crickets and beetles, then toss what is left in a hot pan.

This is sad.  This country had surplus food twenty

years ago, now people go

hungry. Mugabe must go.

food 20 years ago,