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Original Post Date: 2002-05-26 Time: 15:05:00 Posted By: Jan
Zimbabwe Standard (124)| May 26, 2002 (124)| Parker Graham
MASVINGO-Over 400,000 villagers in Masvingo province’s seven districts are on the verge of starvation, as the acute self-inflicted food shortages bite, The Standard has learnt.
The food shortages are the result of the relocation to Mozambique, Zambia and Angola, of the large scale commercial farmers, the traditional source of food for the state-owned Grain Marketing Board (GMB). The parastatal is responsible for the marketing of all grain in the country, including that used in feeding schemes.
But with commercial farmers fed up with two years of constant harassment by self-styled war veterans and landless villagers as government implements its so-called fast track land resettlement programme, Masvingo’s GMB silos have run dry.
There are numerous reports of people fainting from hunger in both Masvingo town and the rural areas around it.
The provincial administrator of Masvingo, Alfonse Chikurira, told The Standard that all seven districts-Bikita, Chiredzi, Chivi, Gutu, Masvingo, Mwenezi and Zaka-were facing acute food shortages.
“Definitely, hundreds of thousands of villagers need urgent food aid before the situation gets out of hand. We are finding it difficult to adequately distribute the grain because of hoarding which is going on unabated,” said Chikurira.
Previously, the Masvingo city council relied on a modest $200,000 grant from its twin city of Kernen, in Germany for its supplementary feeding scheme, but this is now inadequate because of the increased number of people seeking assistance.
Masvingo provincial social welfare officer, Ronnie Nkala, said NGOs had chipped in to help finance the supplementary feeding schemes for primary school children.
“Christian Care and Care International have since stepped in to help thousands of hapless villagers and school children from starvation. “The two NGOs have introduced supplementary feeding schemes in most schools in both the Chiredzi and Mwenezi districts in order to avert the severity of the starvation,” said Nkala.