Mugabe: Poll day Declared a Public Holiday
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Harare – “Ah! But who even cares?” asked Gifty Ambiwa, a purveyor of plantain leaves. “When you have no job, every day is a fun-less holiday.”
Women like Gifty have tried in vain to eek out an existence by selling natural resources in order to support their families. The problem, she states, is that there is not much market or profit in plantain leaves and rocks “because people can go and pick them their selves for free.”
Memory Ncube, a rock seller, shared her ire.
“Now that Mugabe has declared poll day a national holiday, more people will be standing in line to vote, and fewer coming to (maybe) buy the fine rocks that I have sent my kids out to pick and stack neatly here.”
She described the African autocrat as an “incredibly insensitive @#!%.”
