Struggling
I am very lucky because I have a job. Most people I know do not.
But I am not so lucky as I cannot get mealie meal, my main food. Never before since I was born have we not been able to buy our basic food. Before our country was the bread basket and we exported to all the other hungry people of Africa. Now we beg for what used to be ours. It makes me very angry that zanu and mugabe have chased the farmers from their land.
To fill my stomach and that of my family, I must buy two loaves of bread to eat with our tea every day. That costs me nearly 2 million a month and I only earn 6 million. Then I have to pay for the taxi to work – over 1,2 million. What does it leave me? Then there are school fees and we have not had free education ever. I am very angry as we are now hungry and suffering becasue of these amasela (thieves) and chefs that take our money and give us nothing back. There is no proper medicine and now we must take our relatives food in the hospital.
We are tired of this government!
March 9th, 2006 13:13
For those of us who are outside of Zimbabwe, what is an ‘Nkayi activist’?
March 9th, 2006 13:52
Nkayi is an area in Zimbabwe and the guy who gave us this posting comes from that area. But you raise a fair point … we should think about changing that in case people think it’s a specific form of activism. Thanks for the comment.
March 13th, 2006 06:04
GREAT WEBSITE AND GREAT ARTICLES. NOW I LIVE IN SYDNEY BUT I HAVE MANY FOND MEMORIES OF ZIMBABWE AND HOPE ONE DAY IT CAN RECOVER FROM THE MISMANAGEMENT.
April 19th, 2006 13:45
I spent my childhood years in what was then Rhodesia, 1958 through to 1964 what a wonderful place to grow up, people were happy, there was hardly anyone without, food was plentiful along with Jobs, happy smiling faces where ever you went no violance. What a disaster, how did Mugabe get to this place in time, surely some one saw it coming. I still have friends in Zimbabwe friends who were once fairly prosperous business people employing perhaps a 100/200 workers all gone. farmers that went into Zimbabwe after the Rhodesia name change to grow fruit and coffee all gone. Farmers who gave up part of their holdings to help Mugabe with his land reform all gone.
Hopefully the suffering will not last much longer, Mugabe is old and if there is a Devil he will take him shortly, how much that will help because the regime will still be there I don’t know. You are not getting any help from outside the only people who will make the change are you.