>I was in Zimbabwe in '85. Salisbury seemed to have become Harare with little difficulty. But on the night train from Bulawayo I felt a strange sense of history when I saw the RR (Rhodesian Railways) emblem was still there. ;-)

Like in The Gambia when I was there in the late 80s, they drive on the right now, to be in keeping with Senagal (which surrounds the Gambia) but the roads hadn't been touched since the British left. You meet arrows coming towards you on the pot-holed roads, and have to do a U-turn to get off cos the exit roads were the entrance feeder roads. The only tarmac was old and greyed, the white lines faded. I don't expect we'll see much in improvement of the infrastructure in Zimbabwe till that insane monster is gone.