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Al Jazeera
Environment

‘Like slaves’: Zimbabwe farmworkers lash out at work conditions

Subsistence farmer Joice Chimedza harvests maize on her small plot in Norton, a farming area outside Zimbabwe''s capital Harare, May 10, 2016 [Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters]

Beatrice, Zimbabwe – For most of the last nine years, Admire Munatsi has gotten to his boss’s farmhouse in Beatrice, 65km (40 miles) south of Harare, at dawn, to begin a range of tasks from cleaning the chicken run and pigsty to washing cars. By 7am, he joins his workmates in his oversized work suit and tattered gumboots to start a 10-hour shift as an irrigator at the farm.

His combined monthly pay for both roles is $70.

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