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                                           Firewood (Nemanwa)

It’s more like a tradition in most African countries, young girls like these they go to collect firewood either during school days (which will be on Sunday afternoon after church) or any day on school holidays. These girls they are friends at school and neighbours in the village.

This kind of responsibility is moulding mothers of tomorrow a responsibility of the African woman.

                                          Rural Settlements (Garati)

 Neat patterns are visible in the fields there especially the ploughing season in Zimbabwe. Arial views like this one are not common in flat lands, some folks would need a helicopter, but in these places what you need is the love for nature straws and such landscapes just fall in place.

                                          Line cut  (Masvingo)

One of the first locomotives used by the British when they came to Zimbabwe, now it is displayed outside municipal offices in Masvingo once named Fort Victoria by the British. Fort Victoria was the first town to be discovered by the colonial settlement and grew up around the encampment established in 1890 by the Pioneer Column en route their eventual destination, Salisbury now Harare.

                                          Utunga hwatsvuka (Dusk) Charumbira)

A beautiful smooth black figure posing the end of another day. I made several shots before I got the apple of my eye. Passer-byes were astonished by what I was doing, they couldn’t just figure out exactly what I was up to.

                                                    Social Networking (Garati)

Blogs, tweeters, facebook for all your connections, but here we are looking at footpaths, from one homestead to another and another. Networking at its best. These three homesteads share a lot in common and life in the rural Zimbabwe is mainly socialising. In history these three could engage in marriages amongst their children.

                                                    Last man standing (Nemanwa)

Amazing weather patterns here, resembling the most popular balancing rocks in Zimbabwe. One cannot find such outstanding stones anywhere in the world except in Zimbabwe. This stone is not more than 2km away from the famous World Heritage site, Great Zimbabwe, so one can understand why Zimbabwe has such outstanding stones. The apple never falls away from the tree.