28 June 2001
The situation here has not improved much, in some areas it is still very bad. Only 40 minutes from us a farmer was kicked and beaten at his front gate because when he went to town he locked his front gate. They said that it was not his farm and he had no right to lock it !! You must have heard that the leader of the "war vets" died of aids last week so now they are saying they are going to go all out and take ALL the white owned farms. So we are still in much the same situation here, still concerned and living day by day, so unsettling, but God is in control and we know that His will be done.
We have so much going on right now, busy with church buildings and delivering maize to the aids orphans at our churches. Richard is going to Binga tomorrow to deliver food, he leaves at 4am and gets back at 11..12 pm. I won't allow him to sllep there because of malaria, hundreds of people have died this year from malaria in the Binga area. There is a hotel he could stay in but just so expensive so he rather comes home.
Fuel went up this week , diesel was $39 now $66, petrol was $40 now $78 !! to even get any is waiting in a queue for up to 4 hrs or more, and sometimes when you get to the end you are lucky if they still have. So now all commodities will go up, specially food stuffs, it is getting almost impossible to go on!!But as in all things, God is good!!!
God Bless you
In Christian love