Zimbabwe: Let's Create Wealth From Below

opinion

Harare — We are now into the season of selling agricultural produce. What should be a time of reaping the rich rewards of hard work can turn out tragic as, going by the past and current reports, the nouveau riche or suddenly rich communal and small-scale farmers squander the hard-earned money on wine, women and song and return home to face their wives and children virtually empty-handed.

Scores of women have committed suicide over the years after husbands spent all income from a year of toil in the bright lights of the city. A few men, faced with the ignomy and shame of bringing nothing from the tobacco auction floors, have also taken their lives.

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