BowAndArrowMan

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...

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...