Excerpt 10: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers
We got no advance warning before or alternative accommodation after. Nobody cared whether we lived or died.
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Excerpt 10: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers EXCERPT 10 Fathers of Nations Excerpts Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
The visitor reached for his coffee and took a sip. "More like
it!" he said. "Nice and hot," he added. Then he tu rn ed to Comrade Melusi. "Your new business, how did it
do?" "l can't say it did well. Inflation was eroding incomes
faster than they could grow. But I survived. I didn't live and work in as clean
a suburb as I did before. I just could not afford the rent there anymore. No, I
had relocated to a slum in a poor part of Harare. But, hey, I was alive"
He laughed, falsely. Sorrow was in his eyes. "Then tiere came
Murambatsvina." "Then there came what?" asked the visitor. "Murambatsvinå. It is Shona, meaning expelling the
trash." "Please go on." "Bulldozers went from slum-to-slum evicting residents by
tearing their homes to the ground. Murambatsvina expelled us, the trash, all
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