The situation countrywide is that all doctors at all the country's referral hospitals are on strike, but we are negotiating with the government on a new package
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The situation countrywide is that all doctors at all the country's referral hospitals are on strike, but we are negotiating with the government on a new package
The food aid agencies are returning, but not all villagers qualify for food aid, and that leaves quite a large number on the verge of starvation, and they are now resorting to selling off and exchanging their livestock for survival
We are less than a month into the farming season and already there is no fertiliser or maize seed being made available to villagers ... And I foresee all this repeating itself in future.
After pounding the maize, the mealie-meal [maize-meal] I will get will only last a month, as I have to make porridge for the children before they go to school and I have to cook lunch and dinner. The amount is too little, as I am taking care of a sick nephew who has to eat frequently throughout the day
These people are taking advantage of the food shortages to rip us off. The exchange is not fair but I have no choice, as there is no grain throughout the whole district; but this is a rip-off
At the beginning the year things were better because villagers were selling the cows for cash, and this allowed us to buy more grain amongst ourselves, but the whole village has nothing now and we have to get the grain from outsiders, who only want to exchange the maize for livestock