Zimbabwe's Dingy Trains Mirror Economic Decline

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Zimbabwe's Dingy Trains Mirror Economic Decline
Oct. 5, 2018, at 9:04 a.m.

By Siphiwe Sibeko

HARARE (Reuters) - Dark, dirty and slow, Zimbabwe's trains, like much else in the impoverished southern African country, have seen better days.

Once the preferred mode of transport for most Zimbabweans, the state-run rail service mirrors the decline in the country's economic fortunes during the last two decades under the leadership of former President Robert Mugabe.

Gilbert Mthinzima Ndlovu, a veteran of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war and a security guard at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) for 35 years, yearns for the old days when trains were full and arrived on time.

Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-10-05/zimbabwes-dingy-trains-mirror-economic-decline

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Gilbert Mthinzima Ndlovu, a veteran of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war and a security guard at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) for 35 years, yearns for the old days when trains were full and arrived on time.

Well, if you went back to being "Rhodesia" again, that might help.