Watching the World Cup come what may
Trudy Stevenson, one of Zimbabwe’s most energetic and people focused politicians has become Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Senegal. I miss her vibrancy but her Letters from Dakar are both inspiring and informative. Here’s a short excerpt from her latest one:
Meanwhile two of my three phases of electricity were inadvertently dug up by the nearby road works two weeks ago, so once again I had an emergency – on opening night of the World Cup, OF COURSE!! So we couldn’t watch South Africa play the opening match, except that by amazing luck I have the MOST GENEROUS NEIGHBOURS! They are Australians, and had organised a TV in the road reserved outside for all our security guards to watch the month-long World Cup, and the TV is connected both to their mains electricity and to their generator – so when the power went off, we sheepishly wandered outside, and were welcomed to join the guards – and watched Bafana Bafana draw 1-1! There were about 25 people watching that TV, including another diplomat, the Hungarian consul-general who lives 3 houses away! We were terribly bitten by mosquitoes, but we didn’t notice at the time! Now we’re heavily into World Cup – but also terribly disappointed by our African teams, all of whom we have been supporting. Tonight we’re undecided who to switch our allegiance to, after watching Nigeria’s defeat by Korea . . . we shall see!