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May 31, 2005
Housing
Ok Jen. My house is a rental. All the PC peeps who live in towns rent their houses. The range is from $50 to maybe $80 or so a month. That's for a small house in town. For a big house in town you'd pay considerably more (depending on the neighborhood). I think that PC pays a lot for location and security. Land dispersement here is very strange. If you want to build a house or farm a plot in the village, no need to buy the property (or rent for that matter), you just go to the headman, senior headman, or chief and ask for permission. Always bring a chicken to him as a show of respect and offering (BEWARE: never bring a black chicken). Those lands belong to certain tribes. Then of course there are HUGE amounts of land that have basically been given to white Zambian (and former white Zimbabweans kicked-out by Mugabe) farmers. The people who work their land (for little to nothing) live in villages on their land. The other people who live in villages live on tribal lands (as headed by the peeps named earlier). Oh! And then there are what are called "settlement farms." Basically the government gives people who used to work for the government (cops, teachers... think HUD retirement farms or something) big tracts of land where they get to make money in their old age. They usually employ a family or two of workers to live and work the farm while living their comfortable life in town. Ok, I can smell the meat pies from Star Snacks down the street calling my name.
Peace.
ARV
Posted by ringo at May 31, 2005 12:20 PM
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Posted by: jill at May 31, 2005 1:04 PM