what a crazy day! Riots in Maputo!

[Pepe]

I just had a crazy day, taken out of some horror movie!
major riots in Maputo, Moz. I can still hear shooting on the streets! road blocks, burned cars, shooting.... madness really! We are all safe and barricaded at home.... what craziness!

Lets hope tomorrow things quiet down a bit....

be safe!

[Squid]

Pepe, Hope your OK? Thinking of you all x Run to the bush 

[jules]

crikey what caused all that pepe 

hope you're all safe out there x 

[Pepe]

We are safe and well... but it looks like things will continue tomorrow...


For those interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11150063

thanks for your concern!!!

[jules]

good grief pepe  over food and fuel? imagine if that happened here in the uk  god forbid but at this rate who knows. i've gone three years without a pay rise 

[ukgrey]

Glad you're all ok hun take care 

[feika]

I feel sorry for you Pepe, as I myself have been witnessing these riots and random gun shots ever since I was a little boy (about 25 years now). There have been periods of relative calm for about 3-4 years and then again. It all started in 1984 over the killing in a road accident of 2 college girls, the ensuing riots took one shape or the other afterwards and it continued till 1997.
Even to this day, riots and vandalism randomly erupt on one pretext or the other (heavily politicised) from some parts of the city or from other cities too. Fortunately we have learnt to live with that and prayers are our biggest shield when we go out of the house.
Wish you are safe and sound, don't take any risks, stay at home.

[Pepe]

This are calmer today... but it looks like it might start again... we are still at home and the street are empty...

thank you again for your concern!

Feika: where abouts are you? sounds like a scary lifestyle too!

[feika]

I'm reallly sorry for myself to sound like I've been living in a scary place, but I love to live in Karachi, Pakistan. When you count the positives it's not that bad to live here and things are pretty normal it's just so big a city that majority of the people are not at all affected by routine incidents in some parts of the city. However, there are times (once in a while) when the whole city stands still, and I being an audacious soul don't want to sit at home (this has changed quite a lot since I got married, though).
During the old days, I never missed the university classes on almost weekly violent strikes--by the way there used to be no classes at all on strike days but the university rules were that you have to have 60% attendance to sit in the exam, and I being a cricketer had to bunk classes to play hence I just couldn't afford to loose out on exams. The majority of teachers live in the university campus town and they usually arrive, some teachers' pets or those living nearby also used to turn up and often there were classes held or at least the attendence was registered.
All in all the fun part of living here clearly outweighs the negatives, so I guess no bickering and Hakuna Matata.