After the elation of yesterday, today we sit and wait again. Apparently Bob has been sacked by ZANU PF but is still president. A well written post by Alex Magaisa outlined yesterday the legal and political intricacies of legally removing Mugabe from power. It looks like Mnangagwa is the successor but whether he will form a government of national unity remains to be seen and if we will still have elections next year. So yes, yesterday was a day of celebration for the end of Mugabe's rule, but we need to pray about what and who comes next.
I went out to two wetland sites yesterday afternoon and this morning. Development has already started on both but I have been asked to write a report. Driving through Kambuzuma this morning we passed Heroes Acre and the Chinese Mall. Both symbolic of things in their own way. On the way back from Kambuzuma we stopped to go look at a small dam known as Blue Lake. The path leading to it took us through masses of garbage and litter. We went through a half constructed building where squatters were living but also sifting through the rubbish and making an attempt to group things into different piles. I have the image of an old man sitting by a fire surrounded by computer parts and microwave oven shells embedded in my mind. In a way he and the others are recycling our excess of waste but it was still a sorry sight to me.
Well I had best continue trying to write these reports.
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