Mishak Mutsikwi, 56

Was an employee up in the Bvumba. He had stepped on a landmine 23 years earlier and almost died. He had lost half his left hand and his legs were badly torn, still he was one of the happies persons I've ever met. Always smiling and loving life, living it fully and explaining for us how his survival in some weird way was connected to a famous rebel leader in the baibel called Jesus. I don't know about that part, but his smile was contagious. Bvumba Mountains

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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