http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/rotting-moral-floor-boards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rotting-moral-floor-boards Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/rotting-moral-floor-boards/#comment-40283 Tremayne S Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:08:33 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=200#comment-40283 Very touching….and insightful as always. Over the past several years this blog (kubatana) has become one of my favorite ways of getting ‘real’ grassroots news from Zimbabwe. Knowing a bit of what you’re going through (Harare 2000-2004) I have a great respect for the courage and innate decency of the average Zimbabwean, regardless of race or tribe. It saddens me to see how the absolute evil of a small minority has brought a great country to its knees and a decent people to such desperation.
However, all is not lost. Your column reminded me of how I forgot a $100usd set of headphones in my hotel room in Bulawayo during a visit to Zim last November. This May I returned to Zim and visited that hotel. On a whim, I enquired if possibly my headphones had been put in ‘lost and found’. To my surprise, the manager produced my headphones, complete with the carrying case, etc. I was amazed that they would have been turned in the first place, and then held for me for 6 months. That would have never happened in most countries in the world.
Zimbabweans are a decent, proud, courageous people. They deserve far better than they have received.

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