Occupational Health and Safety Standards in Zim
The other morning I was driving into the office and I pulled up to a set major set of lights in the Bulawayo City Centre and saw the following.
This council worker was sitting literally in the middle of the inbound lanes filling in a pot hole and was compacting the dirt with a juice bottle filled with sand. Drivers had to be on their guard as they had to swerve to miss this council worker.
This is weird
To be totally honest the “weird factor” of things around Bulawayo has started to become our normality and it is only when people come over to visit that they we start to recognise them again. But I have to admit when seeing this on our trip to Willow Park just the other day I thought that this is definitely weird (and daring).
This is a picture of the back of a car driving at fairly high speeds and the only thing holding the back windscreen on is a whole heap of sticky tape.
You can either laugh or you can cry????
About 3 months ago, Jodi and one of our friends found and purchased really nice outdoor furniture from a store in the industrial area at a ridiculously low price. Over the last 2 months Jodi and our friend have been calling and wanting to know where this furniture is and how much longer it will take to be made and delivered. Finally, on Friday, some of the furniture was delivered and we stored it in our carport and we had planned to stain it ourselves on Saturday (after my game of golf). The following is where one has to find a comical side to anything and everything that happens in Zim.
As I have recently mentioned in other blogs, we have had two instances on a Friday night of someone getting into our property and stealing stuff … at least this time no one broke into our property … but … on Friday night something we didn’t expect to happen happened.
I got up as usual on Saturday morning to prepare a cup of coffee before my game of golf. I opened up our dining room curtain to look out at our drive way and behold something that I would never have imagined stood before me. Our thatched carport had collapsed … not only had it collapsed but it had annihilated the outdoor coffee table and broke the double outdoor lounge chair that Jodi had been waiting so long to get.
One has to stop at a moment like this and try to find positives …
- no one was inured;
- our car was not damaged because it was not parked under the carport;
- it missed smashing our trailer;
- not all of the new furniture that Jodi had been waiting for was damaged;
- it is another story I can blog to you all.
Laugh or Cry????? We chose laughter … what else could we do?
Did you know?
We found out a couple of days ago from two sets of friends (who got stopped at two seperate police road blocks) that is an offence to drive a “dirty car”. How peculiar is that?? With the amount of cars that are driving around Bulawayo that are definitely not road worthy (even in a smash’m up derby) they choose to pick out people driving “dirty” cars and fine them … it is VERY peculiar indeed.
