Mahatma Gandhi

“Slow and inglorious self-imposed starvation among the starving masses is every time more heroic than the death of the scaffold under false exaltation.”
A young man that was formorly a Zimbabwean policeman died of starvation in Cape Town. Adonis Musati, 23, was found on a traffic island near the home affairs refugee office. Though the government sources say he died after not eating for four days but Zimbabweans who also were at the refugee center said he’d not eaten for two weeks before his passing. During that time he’d been sleeping in a cardboard box. Musati was waiting for a work visa at the time of his death and had fled to South Africa to attempt to earn a better living and support his family. Tat was a family that was never told of his death by either the Zimbabwean or South African governments. They learned of his passing after his brother Abdell saw an article about it online.
This is truly a sad chain of events and unfortunatly it happens far too often. An estimated 25,000 Zimbabweans are living and dying in Cape Town, one of South Africa’s largest cities, because they are willing to take a chance to live than face certain death in Zimbabwe. These people are frequently border jumping into South Africa to avoid starvation. As with Mr. Matusi, they don’t always make it. Is it not ironic that in one of S. Africa’s largest cities people still starve? One can only hope that together the world’s people can come together and end humanitie’s most brutal plagues, poverty and hunger.