Across the border - Zimbabwe Writer: Stan Higgins Photography: Lesanne Photography
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imbabwe’s bustling capital, Harare (Salisbury of old), is often described as the place that never sleeps—and for good reason. It’s a modern metropolis with a large and growing population, and despite an ongoing set of economic challenges, it offers residents and visitors a wealth of action, activity and excitement that makes it one of Southern Africa’s buzziest cities. Before colonial settlement, people lived along the fringes of waterways around what is now the greater Harare area. But since that settlement of the late 19th century, growth has been focused around a highly active business district in the heart
THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS LOOKS OUT TO A NEW ERA OF GROWTH AND PROSPERITY
of the city, in turn surrounded by a mix of high-density and low-density suburbs, industrial areas, shopping centres, parks, golf courses and green areas. A drive from the southernmost suburbs to the northernmost fringes is a journey of 40 kilometres or more, and growth just never seems to stop.
Travel to Harare is in the main from business people hoping to do business in a Zimbabwe that is opening up after a two-decade period of recession. So in the hotels and lodges around the city one will find a range of business types, from Middle Eastern moguls to sales representatives from neighbouring South Africa, all eager to be part of the anticipated period of growth and expansion in what is generally called ‘the new dispensation’. But it’s also a centre for leisure travellers; from people who come in from other
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