Zimbabwe Tobacco Selling Season: Wives Camp at Auction Floors

(afriquejet.com) Economy-Zimbabwe - AS the tobacco selling season gains momentum many women whose families grow the golden leaf have decided to follow their husbands to the auction floors to ensure that their spouses do not squander the money on booze and commercial sex workers. However the agony of having to spend as much as two weeks queuing to sell the tobacco is now clearly visible on these women. The women with children as young as four months old strapped on their backs have spent at least two weeks holed up at the auction floors waiting in queues to sell their crop. Continued