'another day on the buses'

Cathy Buckle’s most recent letter. Three months before Zimbabwe’s 30th anniversary of Independence I happened to get lost in the vast urban sprawl that characterises the outskirts of the capital city, Harare. A huge shanty town lay on both sides of the road and stretched as far as the eye could see. Shacks and shelters [...]

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Since posting this video my bandwidth usage has gone through the roof! So I’ve had to remove it. The video was the whole of the BBC4 Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children programme. Here’s a link with details of the programme and some short clips from it. If you’d like to see the whole programme again drop me [...]

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Dear Family and Friends, South African President Jacob Zuma inspected a guard of honour at Harare airport at the end of his brief visit to Zimbabwe. The South African President’s departure was shown on ZBC television and was one of the few parts of the visit not shrouded in secrecy. Presidents Zuma and Mugabe held [...]

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Having run out of farms to seize and redistribute Mugabe has come up with a new idea – redistribute white owned businesses! “Thousands of firms, including the Zimbabwean operations of giants such as Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and the mining company Rio Tinto, will be affected, and they must submit their plans to comply [...]

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Dear Family and Friends, Not a lot of school leavers in Zimbabwe will want to remember the last two years of their education. For most its been a time of such hardship, disappointment and despair that it will be nothing short of miraculous if they pass their O Level’s which are now almost finished. One [...]

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Dear Family and Friends, If you think things are back to normal in Zimbabwe, just walk into a bank. Its something I haven’t done for many months and flipping through my last cheque book reminded me of the mayhem of our banks less than a year ago. My cheque stubbs look like something from a [...]

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