Bulawayo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bulawayo/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bulawayo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bulawayo/ 32 32 Zimbabwe authorities abandon returnees on the roadside https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/zimbabwe-authorities-abandon-returnees-on-the-roadside/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/zimbabwe-authorities-abandon-returnees-on-the-roadside/ Zimbabwe authorities have abandoned more than 100 returnees from Botswana who they say made unreasonable demands. Many of them had small babies which were subjected to the cold night air. ends intro The returnees, mostly deported from Botswana, were accommodated at a college in Bulawayo for an obligatory 21 quarantine against COVID 19. When they […]

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]]> Zimbabwe authorities have abandoned more than 100 returnees from Botswana who they say made unreasonable demands.

Many of them had small babies which were subjected to the cold night air.

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The returnees, mostly deported from Botswana, were accommodated at a college in Bulawayo for an obligatory 21 quarantine against COVID 19.

When they were declared coronavirus-free, public busses were hired to transport them home.

Deputy Public Services Minister Lovemore Matuke says some of the returnees refused to board the busses, so they were given bus fare.

The returnees say they were ordered immediately to vacate the dormitories and the blankets they’d been given were taken.

Their pleas to be allowed to remain overnight until their busses arrived today were ignored.

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]]> Zimbabwe tennis pro keeps wedding date days after a crocodile tore off her arm https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/zimbabwe-tennis-pro-keeps-wedding-date-days-after-a-crocodile-tore-off-her-arm/ Tue, 08 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/zimbabwe-tennis-pro-keeps-wedding-date-days-after-a-crocodile-tore-off-her-arm/ In what’s being called a remarkable love story, Zimbabwean professional tennis player Zanele Ndlovu has married British charity worker Jamie Fox days after having her arm ripped off by a crocodile. She says she’s glad she still has her life and was able to keep her wedding date. Zanele Ndlovu and Jamie Fox were canoeing […]

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]]> In what’s being called a remarkable love story, Zimbabwean professional tennis player Zanele Ndlovu has married British charity worker Jamie Fox days after having her arm ripped off by a crocodile.

She says she’s glad she still has her life and was able to keep her wedding date.

Zanele Ndlovu and Jamie Fox were canoeing on the Zambezi River on April 30 when the predator struck.

Ndlovu desribes how it bit off a chunk of her arm and a piece of the canoe which started deflating.

Her financee began punching the crocodile as it pulled her into the water.

Local guides came to their rescue.

She was taken to hospital at Victoria Falls and then flown to a specialized  unit in Bulawayo.

Doctors were unable to save her arm but she was determined to keepn her date  walking down the aisle with Fox.

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