Borders are always beginning and end. Mozambique al frente, Behind Zimbabwe. Two Africas with certain differences. Maybe it's the English or Portuguese and European influence in southern and northern Europe. A long line of trucks on each side, all for taking and bringing in both countries. All missing, nothing is superfluous. Although African passport allows visa-free spending, the line of men and women with bags, suitcases and children hanging back time slows. Activity to ask if my visa taken me three months ago it still (I was in Mozambique in April). The answer is no, but I used to skip the long queue and be the first to cross the group.
Outside I expect Benson and Jenson, our cook and click Zimbabwe with whom I share several cigars. At this stage of the journey our relationship is close, sincere and fun. ¿Os Pena finished the trip?, asked. "I'm looking forward to see my daughter", me dice Benson. They are tired, exhausted and have doubts of the country that receives. "There are friendly Mozambicans Us. Yes, the girls are very pretty. Also do not understand us ". Curious always answer Anglophones who believe they are always others who must understand them to them.
Behind it is a special country that wanted to know since I arrived in Africa. Zimbabweans are, to my understanding, Africans more open and friendly I've encountered with the South Africans
Behind it is a special country that wanted to know since I arrived in Africa. Zimbabweans are, to my understanding, Africans more open and friendly I've encountered with the South Africans. I think it has to do with the usual. Both are more accustomed to live with whites despite atrocious endured racist regimes that lasted until nearly the end of the twentieth century. In the rest of the countries around the independence occurred in the decade of the 60 and 70. The rest of the continent white settlers were always. In South Africa and Zimbabwe are native whites for generations and heart. Many times have I heard you say "We are Africans", with the same pride a Xhosa, zulú o tonga.
My memory of Mozambique is that crossed the country three months ago in sheets (trucks) and found more silences and glances that crony. Always shy smiles, educated, but somewhat distant. Not the case in Zimbabwe, where we took pictures with police officers in a supermarket as we chatted about the safety. That's just one example that would be useless without the other dozens of people with whom we stumbled open for more than two weeks. I brought this review from South Africa, where hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean refugees who breathe hatred and misery among its neighbors (a drama that ever explained in this blog and it teaches that rejection of immigration is a phenomenon that occurs only in rich countries). Zimbabweans claim to have more studies and speak better English than South Africans. The South Africans see them as unfair competition for jobs: charge less and work more. I hate coins, world history.
Zimbabwe is Mugabe's farmhouse without them the form of this butcher deliverer nothing is explainable
Zimbabwe is Mugabe's farmhouse without them the form of this butcher deliverer nothing is explainable. About, for those who are interested in her figure again I recommend reading the book "Dining with Mugabe", The Heidi Holland. The subtitle leaves no doubt: "The untold story of a liberator who became tyrant". The book begins with a dinner in which the author hides in her house a young dreamer mugabe and ends an interview with a man converted into a despot dictator. I will only give a surprising response that the president gives in the book: "In Zimbabwe lacks only products on shelves, nothing more ". And nothing less, missing include. There are of course two different countries. The rural, impoverished and road dust, without light or water, and places like Harare, capital, or the Victoria Falls tourism, where some supermarket barcodes and bank tellers. Some, that misery there is shaped brick and concrete slums. The feeling is that the country is undone, everything is decaying. No freedom dreamed of and fought, that a leader of your own skin color does not make you free, tions from comida, no security. It could be anything this beautiful country and the blame is not the liberators of the ancient tyrants. Zimbabwe has enough resources and infrastructure legacy-still languish- to dream of something more than a patriotic salute to the black cause. The cause is to have future black shelves, Not a photo of a president of non -European origin hanging from each chipped wall of the official buildings. Freedom is not just a paper and a box. Is there really democracy in Africa?
Mugabe, the teacher who dreamed of giving his own education, who boasted to dress like an English lord and he craved the respect of whites and blacks admiration, ended up killing thousands and stealing their land freed from the rest. Your end is near. It will leave a legacy of death and misery will cost heal. The shelves are now a hope to fill. Yet, his countrymen smile, much, less victimization than elsewhere, with more pride. I hope Morgan Tsvangiri, current prime minister, Opposition leader and real winner last elections do not, If as the forecasts say in the "predictable" elections of 2012, good to its predecessor. It seems that the African Union is not prepared to tolerate another Mugabe rigging and his loyalist forces weaken in bloody internal wars for control of Zanu-PF, his party, since we have found that the health of the aging leader weakens state coffers as much as with every trip to Singapore for treatment for his ailment. Curious deliverer hospitals heals in luxury while his people no toothpaste. Adiós Mugabe.
This trip is part of the route of the agency Katanga Zimbabwe: Walking Great Zimbabwe
Route Kananga:http://www.pasaporte3.com/africa/viajes/zimbabue-mozambique/zimbabue-mozambique.php
