It all seemed too easy ! Go to to the DHL office in London, explain that you want a box full of plastic boxes to arrive in Mzuzu in a week's time, give them a notional value for insurance (the goods are a free donation to the Kaliya youth group and an essential part of the solar power system) and hand over the box and 140 quid. So just how, HOW, somewhere along the way, this turned into an 8 hour drive from Nkhata Bay all the way down to Blantyre with Mr Chiumia to appeal directly to the Technical Director of the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) I don't know ! It started at the DHL office in Mzuzu where, we had been told by phone, the box was waiting for collection on payment of a
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