Word: mutisinazita
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...growing numbers of students have dropped out due to hunger and the inability of families to pay the fees, teachers - whose wages are rendered pitiful by runaway inflation - are also abandoning the school in order to work the illegal diamond mines in nearby Marange. At one market in Mutisinazita, a bucket of maize meal was last week selling for 20 trillion Zimbabwe dollars (about $13), four times the monthly salary of an average civil servant. "We are also hungry," says Chauke. "We need to be paid in foreign currency because every commodity is being imported." A senior nurse...
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