MOZAMBIQUE-ZIMBABWE: The commodities lifeline

HARARE Thursday, September 11, 2008 (IRIN) - It is 7 a.m. at the main long-distance bus terminus in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. The roof-rack of a battered 75-seater bus is piled high with goods, from bales of dried tobacco leaves to reed mats, in preparation for the 24-hour journey southeast to the town of Sango, in Chiredzi district on the Mozambican border. "We go to the Sango border every Wednesday morning and if we travel without any problems we arrive there early on Thursday morning. It...