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- noun A cooked,
pulverized grain meal that is thestaple food inZimbabwe
Etymologies
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Examples
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Corn - which is ground and eaten as a stiff porridge known as sadza - is the national staple.
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Ground into cornmeal and cooked into a thick porridge known as sadza, maize and a handful of boiled vegetable leaves are all his family eats in a typical meal.
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A police spokesman Monday said he took with him a bible as a quantity of "sadza", Zimbabweans 'staple diet of stiff maize-meal porridge.
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In 2008, things were much worse: a confidential report written for Paradzayi Zimondi advised him that prisoners at Chikurubi Prison went for days without a meal and were occasionally supplied with food "only meant to keep a person alive" such as sadza and salted, unclean water.
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In 2008, things were much worse: a confidential report written for Paradzayi Zimondi advised him that prisoners at Chikurubi Prison went for days without a meal and were occasionally supplied with food "only meant to keep a person alive" such as sadza and salted, unclean water.
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Doctors tell of people drawing up rosters, with one person given "sadza", a stiff maizemeal porridge that is the national staple, while the rest eat only boiled cabbage.
The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories By JAN RAATH The Times of London 2008
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“I just started to feel a warm wind brushing against me and all of a sudden a rush of very cold wind followed and finally the smell of sadza remhunga (millet meal thick porridge).”
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Currently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has pegged the daily cash limit to $10 billion per month, an amount which is insufficient to buy a plate of Zimbabwe's staple sadza meal.
GroundReport: With Zimbabwe in Crisis, Children Are Locked Out of Schools 2009
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Currently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has pegged the daily cash limit to $10 billion per month, an amount which is insufficient to buy a plate of the staple sadza meal.
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On the other side of the building was a kitchen and a small dining hall serving sadza, maguru, matumbu and mazondo.
Zimbabwe MDC MP charges are Good Nonsense Unearthed (GNU) charges 2009
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