‘I make $2.50 on a very good day’: the Zimbabweans grafting through lockdown

Selling chicken heads is a means of survival for one Harare grandmother, in an area where staying home means starvation

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Pammula Chiunya, 68, is sitting under an open-sided shed outside a makeshift beer hall in Hopley settlement, six miles (10km) west of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She is not happy.

Chiunya serves roasted chicken heads in a twist of old newspaper to a visibly drunk man, then settles to wait for someone else to emerge from the shebeen, which is crammed with animated revellers dancing to loud music. Customers are elusive, even with her prices: four heads for a dollar.