He teaches the boys how to manufacture marketable items from banana leaves of the shamba. |
There were several South African families of Boer descent, and a German couple called Gaitsche, who ran a shamba outside the mine, where we could buy vegetables for the table. |
The produce from the participant's shamba was considered as part of his emoluments. |
The water is only one kilometre from our shamba. |
In the mid-sixties, increased agricultural production from smallholdings, created by splitting larger farms, reduced vegetable prices and had an adverse effect on the income from the shamba system. |
On the other hand, the creation of settled communities has created problems of transport as the distance between village and shamba has increased. |