The low road to economic ruin, as illustrated by a trip...
“You go to the police station,” menaced Sergeant Silvestre, turning to point behind his back at a lime-green building, explaining that the crime was “not wearing a mask in the car”. We were stopped in a queue of trucks and cars negotiating speedbumps, army, police, paramilitary, immigration agents and sellers of nuts, cooldrinks and much else at the bridge that spans the great Save River in Mozambique’s Inhambane Province, just north of the popular tourist destination of Vilanculos. We saw no tourists at all on the road to Malawi from Maputo, not even adventuresome overlanders and m...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za