What a way to live (Cathy Buckle in Zimbabwe)

www.cathybuckle.com ^ | 9-29-07 | Cathy Buckle

[dynachrome]

Saturday 29th September 2007

Dear Family and Friends, Standing outside over yet another smoky fire late one afternoon this week, a Go-Away bird chastised me from a nearby tree. I'm sure this Grey Lourie is as fed up of me intruding into its territory as I am of being there - trying to get a hot meal for supper. For five of the last six days the electricity has gone off before 5 in the morning and only come back 16 or 17 hours later a little before midnight. "Go Away! Go Away!" the Grey Lourie called out repeatedly as my eyes streamed from the smoke and I stirred my little pot. My hair and clothes stink of smoke, fingers are yellow and sooty but this is what we've all been reduced to in Zimbabwe. Our government don't talk about the power cuts anymore and don't even try and feed us with lame excuses about how the power is being used to irrigate non-existent crops. We all know it's not true and the proof is there in the empty fields for all to see.

[dynachrome]

Why thsi woman stays in Zim I do not know. She is insane to continue on there.

[dynachrome]

Recent post from Cathy Buckle here. Is she part of the problem or just crazy?

[SnarlinCubBear]

And how does she get internet connectivity there?

[CDHart]

I'm beginning to wonder if she really exists.

Carolyn

[AppyPappy]

Yup. I call BS.

[jdm]

A MESSAGE FROM THE WEBMASTER

This site is dedicated to a true African, her name is Cathy Buckle. I have never met her but I share her profound love for the people and a country called Zimbabwe.

Hmmmm...

[Paulus]

On her $100 dollar laptop. Hello!?/s

[PGalt]

I end with a story about a man who is epileptic and visited the local government hospital for his regular check-up this week. It took four hours before he was seen by a nurse who scribbled in his book that this was a known case and that the hospital pharmacy should dispense his prescription of 90 phenobarb tablets at no charge - as they usually do. This major provincial government hospital had no phenobarb however so the man went to the biggest and busiest pharmacy in the town. They said the phenobarb would cost 1.2 million dollars - this is ten times more than the man's government stipulated minimum monthly wage. I offered to help and took the prescription to another pharmacy. The exact same tablets cost 250 thousand dollars - nearly five times cheaper. When I gave them to the man, his eyes shone with tears and he thanked me - 'I thought I would have to die' he said. What a way to live, and to die. Until next week, thanks for reading, love cathy.

Sounds like the template for Hillarycare.

[dynachrome]

Whoever she is, she has been around for a long time. I wonder if she welcomed Mugabe’s ascension to power?

[ChocChipCookie]

Strange. I had the exact same thought when I read just the excerpt posted here. If she does exist, I think she’s completely crazy for staying in this situation.

[JRochelle]

White people in Zim are a people without a country. Their ties to Europe are only in skin color. They have no place to go. At some point they will likely give up.

[headsonpikes]

Imagining dispatches from Chez Buckle a couple of years from now...

“Now that we are reduced to cannibalism, complaints in the market about shortages have eased, but the incessant cries of the Gedthef*ouddadodge bird are ringing in my ears...

[Gorzaloon]

I'm beginning to wonder if she really exists.

She had better be handwriting and mailing to someone here, because her domain host is located in the US.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

1) She is crazy
2) You hit the nail on the head. Her, and her family were big supporters of Mugabe, and the transition to Zimbabwe from Rhodesia. They were very active in the movement.
3) She is an idiot.
4) She deserves 0 sympathy for her plight. She made her bed, and she can sleep in it.

[Jagman]

LOL!

[EEDUDE]

Very interesting.

Where can one get some background material on her? Links?

[ml/nj]

And how does she get internet connectivity there?

Forget Internet. How does she get food?

Something else our government aren't talking about anymore is the nationwide non availability of bread and the empty shops in all our towns and cities. Everywhere you go people are struggling almost beyond description to try and survive and yet the country's MP's, both from the ruling party and the opposition, do nothing to put an end to this time of horror. I have lost count of how many weeks this has been going on for but it must be around three months. None of the basics needed for daily survival are available to buy. There is no flour to bake with, no pasta, rice, lentils, dried beans or canned goods. People everywhere are hungry, not for luxuries like biscuits or snack food but for the staples that fill your stomach.

ML/NJ

[Ditter]

I read here recently that there are 20,000 Brits in Zim. I find that difficult to believe but who knows. How do you know about Cathy Buckle? I have often thought she wasn’t really there, what kind of a moron who has a child would stay here.

[ari-freedom]

I guess she won't be eating this

[george76]

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