Tuesday 14 September: There has been an interesting story in the news the last few days about an MP who beat up his wife causing her to have to spend a few days in hospital. There were calls for him to be arrested, followed by newspaper reports that he had said that beating up your partner was good for a relationship and his wife beat him up regularly too. He has now resigned as an MP “to concentrate on his businesses” and has since been arrested. In another story a grandmother has been jailed for six years with hard labour for cutting off her 12 year old grandson’s ears after he had stolen a small amount of money from her. There are calls for Zambia to invest more in renewable energy (solar, wind, bio and geothermal) because of the unreliability of hydropower on which they currently depend. And on the sports pages the headline in Friday’s Zambian Times was the UK premier league - Chelsea v West Ham in particular. The Premier League figures prominently in Lusaka from the traders at traffic lights to the Chelsea mugs in the office to this shop I snapped in Kafue on Saturday:
Still no internet – people seem resigned to it here although it is causing them a few problems. It is annoying to me though because I have had one or two people at home kindly scurrying around sending me material to use and it is now stuck in the Zain internet hub, or wherever – probably California or Beijing or wherever these things go through on the way here. Aside from the internet problems, it is interesting that we are far more a paperless office here than at home and people quite naturally use laptops in meetings, or take them to talk to colleagues, much as we would a pad or a file. Staff here have no fear of trailing leads – they step over them.
Still no internet – people seem resigned to it here although it is causing them a few problems. It is annoying to me though because I have had one or two people at home kindly scurrying around sending me material to use and it is now stuck in the Zain internet hub, or wherever – probably California or Beijing or wherever these things go through on the way here. Aside from the internet problems, it is interesting that we are far more a paperless office here than at home and people quite naturally use laptops in meetings, or take them to talk to colleagues, much as we would a pad or a file. Staff here have no fear of trailing leads – they step over them.
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