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said.

However, Ms Moyo said that women were eager to acquire their own equipment, as outsourcing was costly and impacted on their profit margins. In future, we would like to get things like tractors so we don’t have to rely on hired tractors. I think our profits would shoot up if we got equipment to do things for ourselves because I think we can say something that might be a disadvantage for us is hiring things like tractors and combine harvesters.

Another farmer, Ms Siphathisiwe Makhuwe, said that the scheme had been useful in bringing up gender parity in the area, as women were no longer at the mercy of the men in their lives.

“As women, it’s difficult to show how much this scheme has changed our lives because finally in our lives, we even have our own bank accounts and bank cards. This is something that we never used to have but instead, we would only see it from the men in the community. I can now withdraw my own money and use it the way I see fit.

“As it is,I have bought eleven bags of cement and roofing material for construction of my own home. I want to build a four roomed urban style home and this scheme is helping me achieve that. It has changed our community a lot because even the men now respect us because they recognise that as women, we are now people of our own means who can do things on their own. I can even now afford to buy nice smelling perfume and go to town,” she said.

Such projects are testimony that the Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has been able to come up with people centred policies despite the illegal economic sanctions that the country is under.

CRYPTIC PUZZLE

ACROSS

3 Remove in one piece (5)

8 A river to you, a game to us (5)

10 Natural product of a crane? (5)

11 For each quiet hesitation (3)

12 TV pioneer who took the broadcasting medium to heart (5) 13 Repair shop (4,3)

15 In a strangely uneven way? (5)

18 But we do so in all weathers (3)

19 Misuse of funds initiated by father (6)

21 Struck with some power (7)

22 Curved form of scar (4)

23 Worker or writer about love (4)

24 Figures to come into town with a book (7)

26 Pictures to shop around for (6)

29 Officer in company with a student (30)

31 Greatly disliked being caught out (5)

32 Where the natives run round in circles? (7)

34 Once more make a profit on an article (5)

35 Insect in a rowan tree (3)

36 But it can be poetic when soft on a girl (5)

37 Is it kept compulsorily? (5)

38 One falls into it by mistake (5)

DOWN

1 Approach the point of ignition? (5)

2 Birds with possibly cruel ways (7)

4 Go at a mad rate (4)

5 Dorian’s intrusion? (6)

6 Irishman in temper (5)

7 Do soldiers find it boring? (5)

9 An exclamation of strange emphasis (3)

12 Struggles to dissolve tablets (7)

14 Not exactly a cry of “Bah!” (3)

16 One plus two? (S)

17 Stories or letters about a navy (5)

19 Winged figure in a tree (7)

20 There’s not always a safe rhyme for him (5)

21 How coots move fast when disturbed! (5) 23 Unnaturally bushy tree (7)

24 Chap staying with old Reg? (6)

25 Bobby, it seems, can’t quiet manage (3)

27 Rolls in the hay with Henry (5)

28 There’s refreshment on the way, but it doesn’t satisfy (5) 30 Bury in a part of Battersea (5)

32 Where to wear little and cover nothing (4)

33 Plus Dan’s change (3)

EASY PUZZLE

ACROSS

3 Very proficient (5)

8 First public appearance (5) 10 Zodiac sign (5)

11 Hit lightly (3)

12 Common flower (5) 13 Relating to marriage (7) 15 Imperial Russian rulers (5) 18 Unit of weight (3)

19 Eg Van Gogh (6) 21 Quicksilver (7)

22 Finished (4)

23 Alter direction (4) 24 Coached (7)

26 Coercion (6) 29 Transgression (3)

31 Mode (5)

32 Brave (7)

34 Blemish (5)

35 Be seated (3)

36 Mrs Thatcher’s husband (5) 37 Stomach pain (5)

38 Weird (5)

EASY SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1, Crypt; 6, Camel; 9, Liqueur; 10, Scrap; 11, Rabbi; 12, Satin; 13, Kremlin; 15, Pea; 17, Edna; 18, Autumn; 19, Glass; 20,Comply, 22 Peer; 24, Hay; 25, Penalty; 26, Acorn; 27, Dingo; 28, Up-end; 29, Espouse; 30, Shade; 31, Erect.

DOWN: 2, Record; 3, Plasma; 4, Tip; 5, Human; 6, Curious; 7, Aran; 8, Emblem; 12, Silly; 13, Ketch; 14, Enemy; 15, Pupil; 16, Angry; 18, Aspen; 19, Glucose; 21, Oafish; 22, Pauper; 23, Ethnic; 25, Proof; 26, Aged; 28, Use. CRYPTIC SOLUTION

DOWN

1 Eg iron (5)

2 Planet (7)

4 Clock face (4)

5 Dough used for pies (6) 6 Secret meeting (5)

7 Rips (5)

9 Drinks counter (3) 12 Entertainers (7)

14 Rocky hill (3)

16 Helped (5)

17 Large wadding-bird (5) 19 Craftsman (7)

20 Streets (5)

21 Cheerful (5)

23 Deer meat (7) 24 Blood-sucking African fly (6)

25 Nothing (3)

27 Speak (5)

28 Girl’s name (5)

30 Release (5)

32 “Veni, vidi --’’ said Julius Caesar (4)

33 Be unwell (3)

ACROSS: 1, H-a-bit; 6, Heads; 9, Capital; 10, Adder; 11, I-sles; 12, Cob-RA; 13, Surgeon; 15, One; 17, True (Grit); 18, Men-I-AI; 19, Cruet; 20, Albert; 22, We-re; 24, May; 25, Rear-Don; 26, Piper; 27, Med-ES; 28, A-TT-ic; 29, Kentish; 30, St-e’er; 31, Serge. DOWN: 2, Ardour; 3, Ice Age; 4, Tar(tar); 5, Ninon; 6, Hair-net; 7, Elsa; 8, Due-nnA (Ann); 12, Court; 13, Steam; 14, Rugby; 15, Oiled; 16, Ellen; 18, Met-ER(maid); 19, Cruiser; 21, Lament; 22, Writ-h-e; 23, Rowing; 25, Rents; 26, Peke; 28, A-ss.