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CHAPTER 2 - LUSAKA
Chapter 2 - Lusaka
Life in Lusaka was quite different. L&G had a major connection – the First Permanent Building Society- and all I had to do was survey their properties (no contents) for fire risks but it meantI had to drive some very long distances. I spent an awful lot of time playing cricket! I even played for Northern Rhodesia as well as two clubs; the Lusaka Cricket Club and the FiveC’s – Catch as Catch Can Cricket Club.
I became friendly with the person who was working for the Life Insurance side of the business in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He used to come and stay with us during his trips to Lusaka. We both had Ford Zephyrs at the time. I had a 100 pound bag of sand in the back to keep the car on the ground because we drove it as fast as we could on strip roads.
A strip road is a dirt road with two narrow, parallel strips of asphalt for each wheel. Roads of this kind are found in parts of Southern Africa, particularly Zimbabwe.
When two cars on a strip road approach each other from opposite directions, each is expected to move away from the centre of the road and use only one strip until the other car has passed.
Asphalt strip roads were built in Southern Rhodesia as Zimbabwe was then known, from 1933 onwards as a relatively inexpensive way of opening up the country for development. Asphalt was chosen after an early experiment with concrete strip roads proved too costly.
By 1938, strip roads covered a total distance of 1,890 km, including an unbroken stretch linking the capital, Salisbury (today called Harare), with the southern border town of Beitbridge. By 1945 the total exceeded 3,300 km.
After World War II, many of the strip roads were replaced with full-
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