Don't give up yet, Radithupa urges

Radithupa Radithupa says there should be rains along the country’s eastern regions, both north and south, starting this weekend and leading into next week. Should that happen, the rains could be the signal for hundreds of thousands of communal farmers in the South to start ploughing their fields, nearly halfway into the official rain season.

In the North, recent downpours of up to 100 millimetres in some areas marked the official onset of the rains there, allowing farmers to plough and plant. But farmers in the South have looked on in disbelief as a scene of uncomfortable familiarity plays itself out before their eyes.