JABULANI Nkomo, the son of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo, who sourced bread donations for the San community last month, yesterday said the donation was a stopgap measure to make them pull through the dry season before they could produce their own food.
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Nkomo sourced the bread from Bakers’ Inn which promised to supply the community with 100 loaves three times a week.
However, it has emerged that the bread is only accessed by the San community in the Mutshina area in Ward 10 Tsholotsho South under Zanu PF MP Zenzo Sibanda. Tsholotsho North is represented by Roselyn Nkomo of MDC-T.
Nkomo admitted that there were serious food shortage in the country and appropriate government and donor intervention were needed in areas such as Tsholotsho.
“We are just complementing the government’s efforts through such interventions by lobbying for food assistance for the people,” Nkomo said.
“When we gave the San people bread, we did not expect to follow them and see how they distribute it, but we expect them to share it.
We only gave the bread to some village heads in Mutshini so that they could engage other San villages and share the donation.”
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Nkomo said as the rainy season approaches, he would be planning a farming mitigation programme for the San people to provide them with farming inputs and resources so they could learn to be self-sufficient.
“We are also sending their children to school so that in future their children would fend for families and stop begging for assistance,” Nkomo said.
“At the moment, we are sending seven children who were adopted by my father to school so that we uplift these people.”
Nkomo said it was a serious challenge that most of these people did not appreciate efforts being proffered to assist them because they continue to complain they are starving and suffering “but we want to uplift them”.
