A little belated- Independence Day being on April 18th- but it's a little like Zimbabweans calling it "Zimbabwe Day" online, rather than Independence Day: a little anti the idea of it, but still in the spirit of it :) I am totally enamoured of my country, and watching Going Nowhere Slowly, a travel programme on SABC, I felt that old pasion and pride stir up in me. The programme was filmed around the time reporters were getting arrested for filming (because of repressive media laws), when we couldn't make sense of our money (we still can't, but don't have it to worry about anymore, now that we use foreign currency for everything); and yet Zimbabwe shone, like the beautiful place it is. The tourists-cum-reporters came away amazed by the resilience of the people under phenomenally tough conditions, and totally stunned by the beauty of the land.

That's my Zimbabwe.

A friend wrote a post on Bill Gates's totally uncalled for and -I believe- totally misiniformed views on the future of my country, as expressed at a conference in Qatar, over at Open Letter to Bill Gates; please take the time to read it, and perhaps share it with friends. If no one else will believe in Zim's future, Zimbabweans do. I really believe that if the outside world doesn't want to help (or perhaps can't, with the chaos of the recession), we will do it ourselves, making a plan somehow- which is the Zimbabwean way. Watch and learn.