A woman collects groceries from a Malaicha warehouse during a lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Harare, Zimbabwe, on May 14, 2020. — Reuters
JOHANNESBURG/BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: In between her shifts, Zimbabwean nurse Sinothando Mpofu used to go to Bulawayo’s open-air markets to buy tomatoes and cabbages for her family of nine – until the country’s coronavirus lockdown closed all stalls.
Mpofu worried about where she would get fresh food, until she saw a message in her local church WhatsApp group about Fresh in a Box – one of rising numbers of African tech companies getting fresh food to people under lockdown.
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