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  • noun A cooked, pulverized grain meal that is the staple food in Zimbabwe

Etymologies

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From Shona sadza

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Examples

  • Corn - which is ground and eaten as a stiff porridge known as sadza - is the national staple.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • 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.

    ReliefWeb - Headlines 2009

  • A police spokesman Monday said he took with him a bible as a quantity of "sadza", Zimbabweans 'staple diet of stiff maize-meal porridge.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • 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.

    Crikey » Canberra Calling 2009

  • 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.

    Crikey » Canberra Calling 2009

  • 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

  • “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).”

    Masvingo man loses christmas groceries to goblins 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    Zimbabwean Schools Unlikely to Open, Lacking Funds 2009

  • 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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