Stopped in on my way to Kariba to spend a few days with Patience Chaitezvi in Chinhoyi. Patience is a wonderful teacher of traditional music (mbira, ngoma, singing), as well as a secondary school teacher (history, religion). She lives in Chikonohono location in Chinhoyi, having bought a stand (lot) and built a house with earnings from her teaching trips to North America. It's a new area, and the infrastructure is still a work in progress.
Patience' house is on the right. She hopes to be able to afford to buy a car sometime in the next year.
Sign near the Chikonohono bus terminal, advocating a peaceful vote - a great example of Shonglish (mixing Shona and English.) There will be a referendum on the constitution this year, and Zanu - President Mugabe's party - is also pressing to dissolve the unity government and hold early elections.
On my last day we went to visit the Chinhoyi Caves. Chinhoyi was the first site of armed resistance during the liberation war, and freedom fighters hid in these limestone caves. This is looking down through the entrance cave to the pool, which is up to 300 ft. deep.
Approaching the pool.
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