House-sitting
It wasn't too difficult for us to house-sit for the friendly couple in the Bvumba with a view like this from their veranda. They had lost their huge farm a few years earlier and now they lived in a small modest house with cows (one 6 hours old as we arrived), cats, dogs, chickens and the other paraphernalia of a country house.
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The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the South Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded... [read more]
The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the South Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded... [read more] Blog: A fading hope
Date: December 18th 2006
Date: December 18th 2006
The train had stopped.
My thin sarong and I had spent the night in a stillborn struggle against the cold night air that blew through the broken window of our compartment. To be awoken by the chattering of a thousand voices was nothing but a well-earned relief. A hodgepodge of odds and ends was offloaded in a commotion of big-mamas, then stowed into already cramped taxis and taken to ... read moreComment on House-sitting
- Africa: January 2006 to March 2008. Morocco to Ethiopia via South Africa.
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