When a president deliberately starves his people

Drought aside, there is also the short-sightedness of Robert Mugabe's ill-advised policies, notable among which were the farm seizures, the economic instability and the violence in rural areas, all deliberate outcomes of Mugabe's directionless politics.

The government continues to harass people who are supposed to be busy in the fields. Like in other countries around the world, there have always been organisations that came to the rescue of the disadvantaged, the elderly and the children in Zimbabwe.