MONEYWEB app instead? Give a loaf to a stranger In Zimbabwe, farm and domestic workers’ earnings cannot buy a loaf of bread a day for the whole month. 11:00 Workers are enslaved and starving, but for each member of the national roads administration â a Christmas hamper worth R135 240. Image: Shutterstock In our beautiful wide blue skies of early May, winter warned us she was near and sent a cold wind, grey sky and unexpected rain this week. Temperatures overnight plunged into single digits and during the day into the low teens. Zimbabwe got out her blankets and put on her woolly hats. Half an inch of rain gave us a welcome top-up of water as we prepare to go into the next six months of dry.