Ray

True enough anything left behind feeds the vultures, jackals, hyanea etc.

Your comment regarding living from day to day.

I have an Australian friend who lived in Zimbabwe (or Rhodesia) during and aftert the Bush War. After the blacks took over government the government TV station ran a campaign and competition to find the best indigineous farmer and gave the yearly winner an award. They found a winner one year. Let's call him "Mr Mpofu". He had grown an outstanding subsistence crop of maize and whatever they grow. Enough to feed his family for at least two years if not longer. The ability to sell the excess, buy things he needed, perhaps more tools. He had worked very hard and diligently and even more worked smart and made use of his resources wisely.

The TV programme made a big show of how black farmers were just as good as white commercial farmers and how they could do the same. Industrious and productive.

The presenter of the show interviewed Mr Mpofu and congratulated him on his success and abilities. They crowed about the new age of black farming.

With the large crop from the current season they asked Mr Mpofu about his grand production plans for the following season.

"Oh No! I do not need to work next year. I have enough food for two years."

Oops.

The grand future of black subsistence farming in the "New" Zimbabwe.