ZimAsset must add a line on ‘how not to be stupid’

A colleague told a story last week of how a young visiting foreign student mixed up his passport in between a bungee-jumping excursion across the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and his hotel room in Victoria Falls, the Zimbabwe side.

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Upon attempting to explain and cross back into Zimbabwe, the poor student was detained and an urgent radio dispatch made to the relevant and if not the highest national security office in Harare, to the effect that a vigilant and patriotic security team in Vic Falls had arrested a “dangerous foreigner” from one of those not-so-loved countries, the neo-cols, imperialist blah blah, and that this person, now a high-value security threat, was attempting to cross the border without a passport and, as the story goes, to carry out espionage, spying, terrorism or whatever negative thing you can think a foreigner bent on causing mayhem can do.

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