“So what, will they make any difference to my children?”
It’s been a while since you heard from Gogo Selina but she battles on in the face of incredible adversity, her flock of grandchildren dependent on her meagre income to clothe, feed and educate them because she has now lost two out of four of her children to HIV/AIDS.
This morning I told her the news that all 5 mdc candidates were successful in the senate elections. She slowly shook her head and said, “So what, will they make any difference to my children? What can they do? There is nothing they can do.”
She then told me that when she was home in her rural area last week she witnessed the sale of maize meal, now almost impossible to find on our supermarket shelves, was being sold to zpf supporters for Z$500 a bag, a few US cents. The current street price for maize meal is Z$220 000 for 10kg.
You may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but the zpf dog repeatedly bares its worn canines, masters of the same dirty old tricks.
(* Click on previous posts by ‘Still Here’ for more about Gogo Selina)
