Dawn breaks in Bulawayo. A trail of squatting silhouettes can be seen lining a stretch of the road that runs through a poor township. Men and women scramble to pick up barely visible grains of maize and toss them into pots, buckets – all sorts of containers.
A Bulawayo based advocacy organisation, Bulawayo Agenda, says villagers in several districts of Matabeleland have not received any food under the Basic Commodities Supply Side Intervention scheme, which is controlled and directed to Zanu PF functionaries.