Been busy. Into Maputo for a short time, then up to Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado. Right up north to check out the locale and meet with some prospective clients and partners. Then, back to Maputo for their Minerals & Energy Conference. There is so much going on in this 'neck of the woods'. Between the coal, iron ore, rare earth minerals, oil & gas both on-shore and off-shore, all at the same time. Then, the day after the Conference, back up north to spend a week at Nacala, below Pemba, in the province of Nampula.
The ports and infrastructure in both locations are currently over-taxed with their respective work-loads. Ports and docks that were built early this century and have not been renovated, dealing with a resource extraction surge that is yet to furnish the upgrade and developments necessary with ports, roads, railways, public infrastructure. It is coming, but well behind the bell curve. Lots of opportunity.
Anyway, onto some photos. Pemba:
Praia de Wimbe (Wimbe Beach)
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Local ladies & their kids, existing on a very subsistence level. Cutting tree roots for timber to be burn into charcoal:
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This is the country-side and the villages they live in:
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A local landy waiting...waiting...waiting, no doubt, for spares:
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One of the smaller spiders around the place:
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Pemba Port:
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A Baia Nacala. One of the deepest natural harbours in the world. A beautiful place. The is the harbour which the mining giant CVRD (Vale) are funding a double rail line from across the country and through Malawi to export anthracite coal:
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Back to Maputo and some views from the apartment I am currently accommodated in.looking south over Baia de Maputo to Catembe:
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Then, out the other side and looking north over Maputo:
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Today was 'Workers Day - 1 May 12'. Had a quiet day compiling some reports and then went for walk and spotted a few Landies. It really is a Landrover town:
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Then stopped and had a beautiful pizza on one of my favourite corner restaurants in town. Street life here is vibrant and full of people, always something going on, with music in the background:
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This was a capoeira group that played music and then was then doing its very athletic performance of skills. Latino Africa. Love it:
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Dinner.... a medium pizza of chilli'd chicken liver, deep tasty cheese, peppers & onion. 1 x beer and 2 x red wines. Sitting on a street corner with much going on around....$12.40 Aust. How much is a beer in Australia now?
To finish off, one of those small world stories. I went into the port at Maputo the other day, invited by some people to view their business. They had a workers canteen and I sat down and had some lunch. The lady that served me was Marlene.
Marlene had been my Embrigada ....the lady who cleaned my house and cooked for me, back in 2000. So lovely to see her and be remembered:
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