There are days when 'my husband and I don't eat at all' - Families survive on one meal in drought-hit Zimbabwe

[Jopie Fourie]

In eastern Zimbabwe's parched Buhera district, Omega Kufakunesu's family has been forced to scale down daily meals to just a portion of vegetables and sadza, a thick maize-meal porridge.

In the morning only the children get the porridge, and everyone skips lunch.

"During the day we have wild fruit collected by the children, and at night we have smaller portions of sadza with vegetables," harvested from the communal village garden, said Kufakunesu, sitting outside her thatched round hut.

A palmful of shumha, a drought-resistant wild fruit, is all she will eat during the day until dinner time.

"We have reduced our food portions so that its enough for everyone," she said.

But there are days when "my husband and I don't eat at all" to make sure the children have some food, she said.

There are days when 'my husband and I don't eat at all' - Families survive on one meal in drought-hit Zimbabwe

In eastern Zimbabwe's parched Buhera district, Omega Kufakunesu's family has been forced to scale down daily meals to just a portion of vegetables and sadza, a thick maize-meal porridge.

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[Jopie Fourie]

Well, at least you have your dignity and land. Just a shame you will die a horrible death due to malnutrition and hunger. Good luck to you.

 

[rietrot]

Intermittent fasting. We've been having it.

 

[TheChamp]

Well, at least you have your dignity and land. Just a shame you will die a horrible death due to malnutrition and hunger. Good luck to you.

Nah, we'll take care of them, there is enough in South Africa for everybody, plus with lazy locals galore it is just impossible for a Zimbabwean to starve to death.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

Nah, we'll take care of them, there is enough in South Africa for everybody, plus with lazy locals galore it is just impossible for a Zimbabwean to starve to death.

Now that is if some of the lazy locals do not pull some more xeno-stunts on them....

 

[TheChamp]

Now that is if some of the lazy locals do not pull some more xeno-stunts on them....

Even with that you are still sure they aren't starving to death, so there, rest easy.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

...rest easy.

Now you had to go and do it... make me think of this... on so many levels...

 

[santaman202]

Fuvk em, they brought this on themselves.

 

[Magnum]

Ag shame. I bet the boers you chased away is feeling more for you than I.

 

[borro]

They should grow some veggies in the garden.

 

[TheChamp]

Fuvk em, they brought this on themselves.

How exactly?

 

[TheChamp]

Ag shame. I bet the boers you chased away is feeling more for you than I.

Maybe they did not chase away any boers?

 

[Spliffcat]

Go see for yourselves.

 

[Sinbad]

Tragic.

 

[Sinbad]

Tragic.

 

[TysonRoux]

Droughts, and other "acts of nature" cannot be avoided, but good planning can reduce the impact to a certain degree - what kind of planning do you think those Zimbobweans did?

 

[borro]

They having nice nom nom

 

[ShaunSA]

Let them eat Grace

 

[daveza]

One meal a day, I've had one meal a day for years.

 

[MidnightWizard]

Well, at least you have your dignity and land. Just a shame you will die a horrible death due to malnutrition and hunger. Good luck to you.

You forgot the most important bit -- ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE -- why the war was fought ...
and
WHAT ALL the World powers insisted on

ONE MAN ONE VOTE ( sorry feminists)

Meant to be more important than anything else -- even more important than life itself !

So terribly sad the way in which it has been wasted and abused ...........