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CHAPTER 2 - LUSAKA
width asphalt roads but some remain, particularly in more remote areas.
In neighbouring Zambia, the phrase “strip road” sometimes refers to a road with a single strip of asphalt in the middle, wide enough for one vehicle. (Wikipedia)
It was quite exciting when a car came the other way because you had to put two of your wheels on the gravel and leave two on the tar strip and hope to God the bloke coming from the other direction did the same.
We did some funny things when we were in Rhodesia which probably would be hard to get away with today. For example, my life insurance colleague never paid going to a cinema. He always told them that he was from the media and so we got in free. We did much the same with motor racing (don’t get the idea it was sophisticated, it certainly wasn’t because we just went around gravel tracks) but we did enter the company cars in the competition and I happened to win which was quite embarrassing because it hit the press. The headline was something like: insurance executive wins race in company car.
One day they had a motorcycle race and this fellow and I pitched up masquerading as the media. We went to park our car after getting through all the gates without paying and they asked us to move into the middle of the track. We sat in the middle in a grass box where all the other media people had typewriters (substitute for a computer these days). As we had none, they wondered whether we would like to assist alongside the track holding red and yellow flags. Our function was to show a yellow flag if somebody came off their bike or, if it was serious, a red flag. On the one occasion we were there on the corner and a chap came off his bike. My colleague ran into the middle of the track waving his yellow flag and the other bikes nearly rode him over. After that we were fired from the job.
Returning to cricket, the Five C’s Cricket Club was an invitation
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