$200,000 a day job anyone?

[ElectricChair]

I have a neighbour who wants to go to Zimbabwe to persuade her mother to leave. Getting a flight in is easy - getting one out is difficult.

[richard-af]

I have a neighbour who wants to go to Zimbabwe to persuade her mother to leave. Getting a flight in is easy - getting one out is difficult.

Persuade? "Getting a flight in is easy - getting one out is difficult" should be persuasion enough!

[ElectricChair]

Persuade? "Getting a flight in is easy - getting one out is difficult" should be persuasion enough!

well her mother is in her seventies - doesn't want upheaval of moving. At least I persuaded my neighbour not to take her kids with her! Or maybe it was the lack of bread and milk in the shops...

[NickFitz]

I have a neighbour who wants to go to Zimbabwe to persuade her mother to leave. Getting a flight in is easy - getting one out is difficult.

In the days just after the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, a former colleague of mine needed to get his sick grandmother over the border to SA in order to bring her back to England. Being a former member of the Rhodesian Defence Force, he rounded up a few mates, hijacked an ambulance at gunpoint, and drove it to the border. The South Africans were quite happy to let them cross, as long as they left the ambulance behind - they said that allowing stolen Zimbabwean government property across the border could have caused a diplomatic incident

[richard-af]

well her mother is in her seventies - doesn't want upheaval of moving. At least I persuaded my neighbour not to take her kids with her! Or maybe it was the lack of bread and milk in the shops...

Hmmm... "doesn't want upheaval of moving"! But she must see, surely, that this isn't a run-of-the-mill moving into a granny flat situation?

[Diver]

In the days just after the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, a former colleague of mine needed to get his sick grandmother over the border to SA in order to bring her back to England. Being a former member of the Rhodesian Defence Force, he rounded up a few mates, hijacked an ambulance at gunpoint, and drove it to the border. The South Africans were quite happy to let them cross, as long as they left the ambulance behind - they said that allowing stolen Zimbabwean government property across the border could have caused a diplomatic incident

I was there in 80 when the men of the RDF were disarmed and confined to barracks, We thought it was a prelude to Mugabi topping the lot of them, as soon as prince charles left the country.
A lot of them grabbed their families and crossed the border that april.

[Zippy]

Mugabe has given land and other assets to those who do not oppose him and has disenfranchised, tortured and imprisoned those who do - white AND black. These tend to be the people who know how to run the country.

Their African neighbours don't come out of this with clean hands either.

I would hope the old b@stard dies soon but wonder what would replace him and how many more people will die when Satan comes calling for him (cue Chico).