Harare streets

[timeblind]

1:11 "turn right at the robot" first time I heard that I didn't know what they meant :)

[laurenttroy]

@timeblind : so did I!

[laurenttroy]

At the traffic light. Just experienced the same problem tears ago.

[JohnRhysMusician]

There are fewer than 43,000 white persons living in Zimbabwe as of 2003. Many homes in Borrowdale Brooke have fallen into disrepair. Meikles has gone downhill as well.

[ashokkartik41]

you guys have the wrong impression of zimbabwe. there are a lot of whites in borrowdale and other parts of harare. my milk seller, doctor, electrician; all white zimbos

[laurenttroy]

Do agree.

[MissJay1305]

Hate will consume you. stop stop stop being nasty to each other, u never kno who is gonna save u one day, wen ur lyin bleeding on the street or yoh house is on fire. So white pple says they are superior ! who cares juss live yoh life.

[vincevince801]

Keep Africa Black!!!

[prepschoolkid]

Are there still Whites living in Borrowdale?

[thomas5070]

@prepschoolkid my mom is....

[catatonicable]

So 'dhunanga' has closed his account hahahahah, chicken shit could read him like a comic.

[canayamacan]

.........

[luke1able]

I still see a Mercedes S Class and ML class, a Volvo in this video. I think Zimbabwe is so poor

[shingy101]

@luke1able yu dont knw what yu tawkin abt itz poor in th eyez of thoze hu aint neva bn therjst coz th stoopid media show all th bad parts and tell yu abt th bad thangz happenin ther jst coz they hate it wen we succeed nd do good thangz so they try by all means to bring us down but it aint workin to thoze hu think nd know th real ZIMBABWE or THE REAL AFRICA..they neva tell yu abt th good thangz

[Nikitns]

@shingy101 first of all, write in proper English you useless imbecile.

Second, Mugabe has turned Rhodesia into a complete shithole. Pray that the opposition will manage to remove that animal soon.

[catatonicable]

Streets look clean but I suppose if there is no money their is nothing to buy and litter.

[popjapanese]

French people !! =)

[09feb1992]

Are there any whites left in Zimbabwe?

[cangooooods]

Doubt it.

[nikkimh122204]

almost all have been kicked out. it's such a shame.

[Zvabaz]

actually very few, if any got kicked out

most left for the same reason millions

more black zimbabweans also left

[toniitaliaa]

For sure.

I have an old dictionary home from 1976 that states that Zimbabwe has almost 300 000 whites. I have personally been in Zimbabwe two times, last time was in year 2000. At that time there were almost 100 000 whites. I guess there is today approx. 30 000<.

It´s a beautiful country and worthwile visiting when thing calm down.

[laurenttroy]

But you can't. You are living in a world of globalization. There is nothing left there for the next coming years. I know it's a shame, but that is the fact

[fynlion]

when i get home i am gonna build up my country.still gaining knowledge for now.ZIMBABWEANS FORGET USA,EUROPE AND THE REST.BUILD UP ZIMBABWE.there is everything there.we shud just work together coz foreign money has corrupted our love for another.you will all here bout me.

[remystery]

ahh man, i miss zim,... even tho i only lived there for a couple of years...

any more videos coming?

[LeftLiberalSoCal]

I want to know what year this was filmed in.

[laurenttroy]

It was filmed in 2006. Apparently just look the same those days.

[orpusdei]

your roads are in better shape than canada's.

[Chocl8sapien]

Nice Video.

[elldhinio]

good times in zimbabwe

[laurenttroy]

Used to!!!

[dudemissy]

Come on my fellow pple. This a black and white issue. Rhodesia or Zimbabwe, white pple had it good and kushy. Best xools, lived in the best houses, biggest farms. I know Bob is a looney, but he kinda had a point. He just went round the issue wrong. None the less, my home, beautiful, i'm hopeful. We need keep the power balance. Zim love 4eva.

Oh and by de way wn all gud, lets relocate all dey white pple to chitungwiza, mbare, kumusha and den u can claim to be a true true Zimbo. I'm no hater.

[SIGNAL75]

dudemissy - now your in a "white" area(borrowdale) all the whites can go to mbare with all the other poor blacks!! while you sit by your swimming pool with all the other stupid corrupt zanu flunkies!! hypocrite - but hey why do you care!! your in the uk spending black tax payers money - trying to fuck colonial white chicks - while your black brothers starve in the dirt of their"new" farms!! n bi da wy try and stop spekin lik a nigga!!

[tuffmedia]

Signal you're just an idiot... You cant even face the truth... You seem kinda scared about being moved to the Citungwiza and Mbare areaz ha ha ha Lmao.... If you're a true ZIm you would see nothing wrong in it...

[SIGNAL75]

tuffmedia - maybe i'm an idoit but i'm not scared! - i left Zim to the blacks a long time ago!! i just find it funny how blacks try to be white but just can't get there!! -

just too greedy too corrupt too dishonest too cowardly! hey - i just like to watch a black country drowning in its own shit - while all the other black countries wimper like kittens - and blame it on whites, colonialists,imperialists - yawn!! as long as my black brothers are dying - i'm happy! ha ha ha lmao

[tuffmedia]

Thanks a lot that you left ZIM. I fake Zimbo less. All the others are still writting commentc here pretending to be Zimbabwean. Mugabe shud only let in whites who will also invite black ppl to their homes for dinners as well. We are all ZIm, like this we get to know each other well! Ha ha ha LMAO)

[SIGNAL75]

tuffmedia - i'd rather shoot my brains out than sit at the same table as zim blacks!!

but thats why i'm in europe eating a good meal with a glass of wine watching europeans enjoying themselves - rather than sitting in a dark house listening to blacks blaming their problems on a ian smith b colonialists c whites d britain e usa f south africa g imperialists h europe i weather j rhodesians k white farmers l mbeki j cecil rhodes k boers l afrikaaners m the world n the moon o mars etc etc

[tuffmedia]

Hi SIGNAL you have just proved my point that white Zimbabweans dont care about the black ppl in ZIm they use it for their own good. and I hope the Black MDC supporters read this. They need to be enlightened!

[zimstyle]

You are bitter because you could stand the bitter sweet truth...

[dhunanga]

Listen up Pork Chop

I think u're racist motherfucker, better watch what u say ass-breath, for you dont know who u're fucking talking to you little piss of shit. I bet u're one of those butt pirate kids who grew up in a trailer park with a drunk ass dad and slut cum guzzler mother. U fucken ass-wipe. fucktard.

Your mother should have sawllowed you

Grow UP! Okay

Just becoz bob criticizes whites dosent mean ALL BLACK ZIMBABWEANS are like that. Get over yourself you piece of shit!

[dhunanga]

THIS IS MEANT FOR SIGNAL75

[SIGNAL75]

dhunanga -you aren't even from zimbabwe you foul mouthed streak of crap - your another loud fat lipped american sticking your fat nose into a topic you know nothing about!! i think you should grow up you yellow streaked chicken hearted coward and post your true country! Namibia my arse - you grimey little

oxygen stealer!

[dhunanga]

F U

[catatonicable]

Spoken like true uncompassionate Kaffer boy, you get what you deserve.

[dhunanga]

i promise i'm going to hunt you down and kill you. i promise

[catatonicable]

Your an embarrassment to your Mother. Keep it up, people will see how the Negro 'really' behaves, thanks.

[dhunanga]

I dont care what it takes but iam going to kill you, even if it means getting someone to take u down. just wait and see

[catatonicable]

DEATH THREATS on YT-nice-you should be banned.

[catatonicable]

Lets see now David as you dont know who you are messing with, you are a Zulu(Father Shona) with strong Zim connections, your family has a history with traditional medicine, you live in East London in a 2nd floor flat with another Zim, due to economics.???

[catatonicable]

And I thought we were friends.?

[GumbytheUnstoppabIe]

They built up the nice areas, so I am sure they could rebuild the shit areas you say they should be moved to. of course, then those would be the nices areas and Bobby Mugabe would take them away again, wouldn't he. They know about engineering, plumbing sanitation, water treatment, all the inteeligent stuff you need to build a comfortable city. You don't think they would forget it all because they got relocated to a dump, do you? No, they;d fix it up nice.

[laurenttroy]

What's HIS?

[sosibingo]

harare international school

[laurenttroy]

My kids were at the french school

[RockyMHorse]

cool. i miss Zim so much! :) anyone here been to HIS by any chance?

[dani162]

wow the first bit of road you were coming down was just after newlands, before you turned right and you had the school on your left and the restaurant you turned into (tim tam) used to be a french placed called alliance france'. and then you came down to borrowdale brook and went past heritage. wow amazing. the massive house on the hill in borrowdale brook with the elevator on the front was owned by the man that 'got' our farm.

[laurenttroy]

Yes it used to be a french restaurant (Le Tam-Tam) owned by a friend of mine. I remember very that house. Wasn't the guy in the air-force? Where was your farm?

[bereaman]

Did he work the farm.?

[edolarosa]

nice video, and this area looks more on top than dirty roads elsewhere.

[markric]

nice vid... when was it taken? whenever is see images of zim it makes me so emotional because i havent been in such a long time and i here it is just a disaster there!

[dustgirl]

We went back to Zim this summer and drove on those rodes!

Although the country is such a disaster area, it is really nice to see it again. YOu can almost feel the heat and smell the air...

Jeesh.

[laurenttroy]

Many thanks Jeesh. Missing both the smell & the heat too.

Cheers.

Laurent

[hopegilmour]

I liced in borrowdal brooke!!And went to heritage school! thanks for that clip i havent seen the place for 5 years now!

[jonasc172]

omg hope! This is jonatan by the way. I was just looking at vids from harare and was so surprised when i saw this guy driving past heritage! i was so also amazed to see your comment here! i loved hanging around the brooke with graeme, remember him?

[cutenessZhabbit]

he passed thru my old schl...heritage...it brings back lots of memories

[TropicalMan5]

Hello from Florida. I liked the drive in the video. Sounds like Harare has some nice parts to it.

[zimrh]

My folks live there and as they put it things are bad but you smile and put up with it. Having said that my girlfriends mother was assaulted yesterday.

[laurenttroy]

Yes you are right. That's Borrowdale Brooke entrance.

[amazeness]

forgive me if im wrong, for i havent been in zim since jan, but wasnt that last bit the entrance to borrowdale brooke? with heritage school on the right, and spar on the left?

[AdrianaStuijt]

When there's not enough fuel, there's very few cars on the roads. Only the rich can now afford to drive on these roads

[Gudmface]

Yes this what we call traffic. I'm tired of the congested roads here and the 30mph limits. I hate London road.

Economic Refugee

[laurenttroy]

so do I. As for traffic warden & congestion zone!!!

[Jancuinea]

damned how i miss those raods and the country... been there in april the last time

[DaveJP1973]

Harare looks reasonably affluent here - are things as bad as they are reported or not?

[laurenttroy]

Yes they are : inflation rate is now 5000%!!!

[DaveJP1973]

I've read all about that, but this clip could just as easily be from somewhere in US or Europe.. would never imagine it was footage of a desperately poor country.

[digitalmorbid]

When was this recorded?

[makalosa]

Not as bad as said but there are problems in some areas like rural areas you dont really see it in the city the city is ok just like any other European or western country.

[gpyoungsta]

"But you can only appreciate that if you are not among the 80% unumployed!!!"

lol, you're right. I just hope Zimbabwe can recover to pre 98 conditions. I left in Dec 98 and you could sense things were getting worse, I would have never imagined this worse. Back then a 'lift' into town cost $4.20, now I'm told you need something like $10,000....anyway, nice video.

[huricaneherb]

NO POTHOLES!!! try kampala.

[Zichoni]

Ay guys hamusikuona kuti arikubva kwaarikubva achienda kuBorrowdale Brooke (those gates at the end). Makakurura kupi? I ges kwa Kitsiyatota

[laurenttroy]

Please in English! Few of us speak Shona. xxx

[makalosa]

it means the guys is coming from somewhere going to borrowdale brook,and the guy asks where the guy who asked the question on top where they grew up.I see you were coming from Eastlea coz I stay around the hood so I know the place quite well.

Thanks

[laurenttroy]

Yes from enterprise road. well done.

[amanyasha]

uri kumbobvepi uchiendepi?

[queenellybabe]

marobot ekupi koayo...

[matabeleants]

If this video is recent, then stories about Zimbabwe may be exagerated. People still obey trafic rules, I do not see garbage or potholes in the street.

[laurenttroy]

Only one years old. Harare still a nice & well runned city. Much more like european standards. But you can only appreciate that if you are not among the 80% unumployed!!!

[littlecutie06]

yeah they are cuz i go der regulary and der is nuffin like that going on. dey chat shit most of da time

[mukadzi]

Oh man! I could just see myself home.

[laurenttroy]

So where are you living?

[littlecutie06]

init. i miss home man.

[chemicalbliss]

TIRI KUDA MORA

[laurenttroy]

Shame I don't speak any shona. Could you translate, please. Take care.

[chemicalbliss]

i sed we want more

[laurenttroy]

On it's way

[loueycookie]

brill , i been to zim twice stayed in borrowdale this vid made my day , precious memorys came flooding back :)

[laurenttroy]

Thanks