We wake up to the news that the army has shut off Bulawayo. Workers are not being allowed to board buses and only civil servants are allowed to go to work.
The first response is that this is a coup - or probably another 'not a coup'. Some weird things have been happening lately. Last week, a press conference was called at which it was announced that all rumours of a coup were unfounded. It seemed to me a strange thing to announce, a bit like saying the weather today is not hot.
After quite an extreme lockdown considering our low number of coronavirus cases, the government has relaxed things quite a bit and it seems that only children are not back doing what they usually do - going to school. Another report talks of church leaders called to State House to pray and declare the virus finally over and done with - what is that all about? Have the riots all over the world made the government scared that something similar will happen here if people are too cooped up?
Whatever is reported about today's action by the army, you can be guaranteed that you will never know the actual truth. The interesting thing is to watch the reaction of people here to this sort of happening. It's just another thing, another day. We ask each other a few questions, shrug our shoulders and walk away. Life goes on as it always does.
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