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MY TIME IN ZIMBABWE, PART TWO

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Map of Zimbabwe: Further to Part One, see-  https://bowandarrowman. blogspot.com/2024/05/my-time- in-zimbabwe-part-one.html?zx= 2fa72e432cb4157d , here is Part Two of my doing-a-JN two-part posting outlining my time in Zimbabwe. After a couple of days, our talks about privatisation got disrupted. It turned out that some leading members of the so-called indigenisation movement, a black power movement, had infiltrated the audience. This movement was very unhappy at how the ending of white rule of Zimbabwe hadn't benefitted ordinary black Zimbabweans. Quite the reverse, during white rule, Zimbabwe was self-sufficient in food. Now there there regular food shortages, massive price increases of the basics to get by in life and many people left unemployed; the Zimbabwean dollar was effectively worthless - I'm not defending white rule, by the way. After the end of white rule, Zimbabwe effectively became a very corrupt and even more impoverished one party-state led by Robert Mugabe; rep...