MY TIME IN ZIMBABWE, PART ONE
Map of southern Africa: This blog post was prompted Smarty's blog post here in which she contemplated going on an African safari, perhaps even involving a stay in Zimbabwe. This blog post will be submitted in two parts because my need for wordiness can't be suppressed to make it one part! But in my defence, JN is serialising her adventures in two parts- see https://jnsjottings. blogspot.com/2024/04/thrills- and-beauty-part-one.html and h ttps://jnsjottings.blogspot. com/2024/04/thrills-and- beauty-part-two.html - so, in the spirit of solidarity, I'm just doing a JN! And furthering my defence, JN's two-parter covered just one weekend; my two-parter covers one week! In the mid-1990s, I spent a week as a consultant in Zimbabwe. The Cabinet Office at the heart of British government asked me to advise the Zimbabwean government about privatisation. I was to accompany a Cabinet Office civil servant and we were under strict instructions to be 'neutral' in our advice...