| The produce from the participant's shamba was considered as part of his emoluments. |
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| 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. |
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| He teaches the boys how to manufacture marketable items from banana leaves of the shamba. |
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| On the other hand, the creation of settled communities has created problems of transport as the distance between village and shamba has increased. |
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| 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. |
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| Peasants hang them in shamba huts on stilts in their rice-fields, where they sleep during harvest season, so as to be at hand to scare off crop-munching hippos. |
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| To reach his new strip of shamba which lay the other side of Thabai, Mugo had to walk through the dusty village streets. |
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| He has lived on his shamba, or smallholding, all his life. |
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| The water is only one kilometre from our shamba. |
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