February 8, 2007
Re-living the Mozambique Adventure….
At the moment we are suffering from a chronic lack of trucks and trailers with which to move our teas - there’s a lack of return loads from South Africa for Malawi and truckers don’t like one-way journeys - this is coupled with the port of Mozzie Beira practically being brought to it’s knee’s due to a combination of broken equipment, poor facilities, bad roads and vessels refusing to dock - the place is a mess.
Nothing changes.
As ever when out for drinks I met Basil Malila last night - in charge of CARS a truck company based here in Blantyre - a character of note he’s getting on in years now but the drinks still flow freely and the stories are never ending - for example he once played international football for Malawi and managed to get sent off before the ref blew his whistle due to punching an opposing player at the halfway line at kick off - we talked of the current situation and led on to reminiscing about my time here back in 2000 and how he was also involved in putting me that truck for the fateful and eventful trip to Beira when mayhem pulled out all the stops and was very much in full effect.
The report I wrote at the time got sent around all over the place - when I arrived in Malawi back on January 13th 2000 I was green-gilled to the extreme but when I came to the end of my time I thought I was a seasoned veteran - the report showed I had still an awful lot to learn - at the end of the journey I certainly felt a lot more schooled in the fuck-ups and fall outs of the Dark Continent.
An intro to the experience can be found here - followed by a blog-posted version of the original report beneath it.
Certainly brings back some memories.
Spo | February 8, 2007
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