“…life and culture is flourishing in Zimbabwe, despite over ten years of US and UK sanctions on Zimbabwe and many of its leading citizens“
By Dr. John Trimble
With an intersection with such a name as Fifth Ave and Fife Street, I was curious as to what was there. I drove by and realized this was part of the three block long street market I visited back in 2003. That year, I wrote a short article and included a picture of myself standing in front of the market. As then, it is still a very vibrant market, with street vendors, mainly women, selling a variety of fruits and vegetables. Food was plentiful, grown on local farms. As in 2003, ten years later, this smashes the lie that farming has failed due to the fast track land transfer process that gave land to over 300,000 new African farmers in Zimbabwe…