Mark Diche worked as a farm labourer, liked shooting and a few pints in his local pub where he'd met Tania.

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''It could have been worse for us as MDC could not have won in the current political environment, '' said a farm labourer Edward Makanga.

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Mr Evans, a farm labourer who mends hedges and digs ditches for a living, had been severely hit by the crisis in the countryside.

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At the end of a sandy track leading out of town into the surrounding scrubland, in a house made of rough-hewn branches covered in clay, Lucia Vieira looks after her two children while her husband is out earning a mere 5 reais a day as a farm labourer.

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Peter Mumme was a labourer on a big collective farm near the border.

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