'The real starvation is in Zimbabwe's jails'

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Mon Aug-11-03 08:02 AM
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'The real starvation is in Zimbabwe's jails'

If anyone thinks the millions of people relying on donor food aid in rural Zimbabwe are the real faces of starvation, they are wrong.

Visit a jail in Zimbabwe and encounter hunger first hand, according to inmates of Zimbabwe's notoriously filthy and overcrowded prisons.

One prisoner, Kizito Mulenga, 28, who gave a graphic description of his ordeal in prison to Zimbabwe's Daily News, equated life in Zimbabwe's jails to hell.

The government's failure to pay food suppliers because of a crippling cash crisis in the country, combined with general economic hardships, have taken a toll on the prison population.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=vn20030811013056411C298816&set_id=1

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