 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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MURDERED; Zimbabwe, a once prosperous country, is dying on its feet. And its criminal destruction is aided and abetted by a Blair government which claims to care for Africa - but which is cynically betraying our kith and kin ... AND millions of hard working black people.
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
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July 6, 2002| Author:
Fowler, Rebecca
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Byline: REBECCA FOWLER
A MAN stands at a makeshift bus-stop on the road to Marondera in Zimbabwe, beside an old wooden wardrobe. He is an extraordinary sight, and when I ask him what he is doing he explains he is selling it in a desperate bid to raise money to buy food for his family.
Until a month ago, Mteke was a farm labourer earning 20p a day, here in prime farmland just 50 miles east of Harare.
But his boss, one of the last remaining white farm...
