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.

A fading hope

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 more

Africa » Zimbabwe » Bulawayo

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

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