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you said I'm not going to limit God no
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I'm not going to limit God so I said
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yeah why teaching of all the designs the
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themes you chose tching I thought we
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need to maintain our heritage our
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culture our zaban culture cuz I thought
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like why would I want to bring the West
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here when you know people want to come
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and see and understand what Zimbabwe is
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about so I thought yeah keep you know
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give a little bit of the West inside the
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buildings like the belly when you see
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the property you'll see what's inside
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but outside to keep our African Heritage
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our tradition and because we're in
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Village it speaks we become part of the
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village this community that's what I
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love about it it's woman run yeah and
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like if you're a guy here you just feel
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it it's me I
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just and then we've got to pull in the
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presidential suite and then we've got to
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pull the we do have but it's not quite
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ready but we've got it
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is it safe to say that this is rural
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tourism it is definitely rural
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tourism I mean for me I I would come
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here for privacy for peace deep in the
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rural areas seems like you are deeply
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rooted in God and you're proud of it I
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am I am I am what I am because of God
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Amen I am what I am because of God and I
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think even this project for it to come
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to life like this is because God has had
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a mission with it I believe that it will
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fund missions I believe that it will do
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a lot of things in the kingdom of God so
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for me God is the cent of everything
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that we do you guys are seeing are you
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seeing what I'm seeing right
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now I want to hear yeah she should tell
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you where the thatch actually comes from
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and how they they go about it's quite
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remarkable well what I heard from them
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is that they go to the national park and
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then they cut the grass there because
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there's a season where they do the grass
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cutting and that's where you know they
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go into The National Park and they you
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know they cut the grass and this is the
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nice thing about sustainability because
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the tourist can't see the animals if the
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grass is Too Tall yes so they then come
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and they they cut the and then so it's a
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win-win situation but you should see I I
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actually feel a festival should be built
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around because you see the women buying
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their groceries getting their tents and
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it's only women who do it the guys are
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too scared to do it cuz right only wom
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yeah only women all the Landscaping here
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we've got two men the rest I think the
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eight of them are women that have done
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the Landscaping pushing rocks and
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everything it's women yeah they are
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capable have you ever thought of that
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one day you'd achieve something like
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this I didn't cuz it wasn't in the plan
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it was just going to be a house and a
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little you know animal husbandry place
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but yeah this is what God does so where
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did the idea of turning this whole thing
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into a business what happened was like I
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had a plan to build a homestead I don't
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know on Facebook there was that little
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house with two round hearts and a square
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so that's what the kind of house I
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wanted I said a two-bedroom house like
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that and then um my husband and my
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brother-in-law have got a friend of
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theirs who's an architecture ano so I
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gave him that house and I said okay and
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he goes how big is the land so I told
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him how big the land was and then he
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says okay I've got an idea so he drew
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the house and then when he drew the
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house he then said but you can do more
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with this and it's in Victoria Falls
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that's when he drew the whole plan of
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the project and it was very mindblowing
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I thought oh I can't achieve this but as
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you can see we're on top and we can see
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the whole village so those are your
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neighbors those are our
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neighbors those are our neighbors ah
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amazing amazing and I'm loving this did
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you do this knowing that 5 years from
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now rural tourism is going to be the
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next thing did you do a research or what
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did you do I don't I didn't do a
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research remember it started from a
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dream and I believe I think the more
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I've walked with God the god orders my
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step in everything even in the business
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cuz I own a business in England and when
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I started that business God said to me
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that to start a business and I would go
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and preach the gospel in different
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nationalities so I've gone to Kenya I've
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gone to France I've gone to Congo with
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the gospel and this was meant to fund
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ so as God
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leads this is where I go I go according
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to what God leads and yeah I am happy
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how long have you been staying in the UK
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I've been in the UK for 21 years 21
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years 21 years and now you're investing
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back home yes I mean honestly I want to
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ask this question people who are in the
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UK in the diaspora they are investing
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back in Africa but specifically in the
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rural areas why is it why is it that way
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I think uh because UK is kind of busy
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we've had a busy life and when you look
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at City Life it's very busy if you look
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at Harari I can't function when I'm in
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Harari I cannot function even vifs is a
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small Township when I go there it's just
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too much but when I come out in the
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country it's peaceful when I come out in
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the country You Can Think Clearly so I
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think it's just that life where you just
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want that calm quiet life peaceful life
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amazing amazing what are the challenges
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that you have faced so far doing this um
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I think most of the challenges I faced
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is the skills where everybody can do
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everything
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I think because when we started this
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project it was the time of Co oh yeah so
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people didn't have jobs yes so everybody
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went into the field of construction so
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that's where there were jobs yes yes so
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we've had many people coming in saying
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that they can do certain things but
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unfortunately they're not quite skilled
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so I had to learn a lot of patience with
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people with people and then also learn
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patience for people to learn some of the
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skills that they needed like when we got
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this place we also began to work with
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the community to be able to build this
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place cuz we wanted to offer
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opportunities to the community oh so
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we've had people who are skilled but
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coupled them with the community to be
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able to work on this project so that we
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can empower the community similar thing
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we've got a big team and we've got some
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the team that was in the community we've
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put them on training to be able to do
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waitressing we put them on housekeeping
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training we've put do yes we've done
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that we've done that we're working with
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Mr Ignus Minge who is a a consultant I
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think he was part of oh we're going to
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the honeymoon suite ah honeymoon Su so
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he's been helping us put the training
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together and then we've got life skilled
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workers but we're also training other
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people to be training and become skilled
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so that we're not moving away from
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promoting and empowering The Village but
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we're also enhancing The Village by
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keeping people within you know the
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setting that are from the village and
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they become part of this up to the end
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of it are you aware that you're changing
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the whole thing the whole system the
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whole the picture that people see about
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R rural tourism or Rural Life you're
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changing things you are creating
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employment deep in the rural areas where
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people wait for rain to come so that
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they can plant Ma so that they can
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survive but you're here you're creating
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employment here are you aware how big
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this whole thing is I wasn't aware
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honest to God everybody asks me are you
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aware about it I wasn't aware but now
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when people out tell you their
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experience
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you actually understand how much not me
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but God has been changing life using me
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so yeah so this is our honeymoon
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Executive Suite where we've got a lounge
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if we got business people they can also
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use it they've got a workstation to do
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their business so we've got exercise
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bikes in here and then what makes it a
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honeymoon suite yes we've added a pool
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at the back for the honeymoon no way so
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we've got a back Garden you guys there's
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a pool here
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small po just for the honeymoon is
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yeah ah you're very
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clever I never thought that I would see
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a poo back here yes ah this is nice it
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was an afterthought and because you know
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like the the Water Crisis and we thought
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yeah let's make it into something
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different so we thought let's add a pool
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so we took off all we had grass and the
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grass was struggling because of the
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water and we thought no but we can put a
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pool and then we'll make it a honeymoon
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this came last it was an afterthought
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that let's make a honeymoon sweet I've
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never seen so much tching and yet
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looking so good thank you thank you so
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this is one of the typical Chalet okay
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it's a standing room is comprised of the
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bedroom wardrobes we also have things
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like gowns for people who like you know
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our
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towels so with these ones we don't have
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bathtubs but we got showers but still
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good honestly for me I would prefer this
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yeah definitely yeah afrian touch so you
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see what I mean outside it's more like
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you know traditional yes but so that
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people don't feel very much away from
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home we try to make it a little bit
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comfortable comfortable beds and seats
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inside that's nice that's brilliant cuz
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that's how we live in this Village yes
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this is our standard now you guys the
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man himself is here she was up to our
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standard you know when we used to just
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filled with mud now now we we have to
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like what do you think of this yeah it's
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amazing like you know they they always
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say you're always influenced by what you
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see yeah and I just think of every kid
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who has seen this what that does to them
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what how it changes how they see things
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when they see something like this happen
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in their own village or someone says
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something like this can't happen in your
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village has to happen in town it has to
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happen somewhere special now we feel
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special cuz it's happening right like
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it's down the road like down the road
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yes I'm sure that when you're here this
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is what you're advocating for when
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you're here you're happy yeah no this
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was God's confirmation aming how else
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does God confirm you know cuz our
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biggest thing is we're trying trying to
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tell people we are not the operator we
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just want to create a website where
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people who have been doing stuff in the
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village can register then God throws
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this at us wow that that was our
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like imagine that you just wake up in
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the morning and just when we're talking
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to I think the sabuk and we're trying to
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tell her our ideas she oh they're
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building that just down the road I was
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like oh really fantastic we can't wait
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so we've got uh four executive suites
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four yes and then we've got uh 16
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standard rooms okay then we've also got
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a family Suite then we've got our
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honeymoon suite uh our our exe our
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presidential suite which is at the
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corner at the moment yeah at the moment
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we're using it as an office so we're not
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going to go there but I pray I pray that
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I I I would see or hear that one of the
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presidents here in Africa are coming
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here that would be an honor it would
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really be an
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honor come true to be a proper dream
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come true proper dream come true I mean
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this is Africa I said we have people
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like him advocating for Africa
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advocating for Rural Life this is what
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we want to see everywhere he said that
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it's ready that will be yeah it's not
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yet ready it's not yet ready be ready
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for the next rural yes it will
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definitely def state will be staying
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here def see that's what we want to see
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you notice the roads are wide enough for
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a motor yeah everything is you prepared
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theads with preparation prepar then he
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doesn't you know I love that analogy I
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love that analogy yeah you're not
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limiting yourselves you guys here in the
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rural areas you know you guys here in
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Victoria Falls you doing big stuff I was
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not away honestly I was not away and
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this is one of our executive suites
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again okay that this one doesn't have a
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pool okay so we Tred to give it kind of
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its own characters that's why you find
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that it's got uh different colors you
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saw that one was the yellow one and now
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this one is a kind of a purple one for
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royalty so yeah so I like to call it my
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Royal Room you know when you're outside
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you're thinking ah probably it's small
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but when you're inside yeah it looks
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small when I was looking at it it looked
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very small and then when I went and I
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thought these rooms are very very big
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big exactly very very big very very big
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let me try to promote we try to promote
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local people in terms of Furnishing the
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people that come from blueo in vifs we
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use people who have tick we got somebody
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in Harari who does the bed so they
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everything has been made in Zimbabwe to
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be able to try and promote our locals
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and for those who like you know you have
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people who like EXC exercising
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especially these days people want to be
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healthy healthy yeah and then the
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windows I just thought the lights so
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that when somebody stands they can see
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everywhere in the village too much
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window which is good so I wanted is just
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to be light so that people can just have
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that feel of light and that feel weight
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so you know so similar things like I
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said to you we've got 16 of these for
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what happened yeah 16 of the little
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standard ones so initially when we look
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at the conference room plan yes uh
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remember I told you that I preach a lot
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I'm a preacher so I was think of
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missions that some work in Victoria
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Falls if people want to come and do
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conferences in Church conferences cuz my
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mind was that particular Forum so when
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they designed it they just designed it
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as this part and if you see just there
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that was where it ended and I said to
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them it's not going to be enough for
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God's people if you put it as that so
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they had to come and start the joint
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right from here oh I see so there's a
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joint here and then they had to add that
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so this is where the conference room
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ended and then you had extend and I had
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to extend it so this is the conference
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room so this is the conference room yeah
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I believe many many conferences will be
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held here
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Christian business many many things will
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be done in this place this is a dream
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come true for me yeah that's our pool
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area we've got uh three Pool Four pools
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on the property four yes we've got four
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pools we've got this is the main pool
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area then we've got a pool in the
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honeymoon suite this place LS nothing at
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all uh I believe so and I think people
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can suggest at you know we free for
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suggestion what people would like to see
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in it but I think more peace when people
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just want Rejuvenation just want
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quietness just want a retreat this is
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the place that I thought we'd be good so
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this is our gazebo kitchen this is we
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named it taboka suet welcome yeah
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welcome sweet we named it what it meansa
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it's nambian we tried to like integrate
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different nationalities and cultures in
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this place yeah cuz we've got nambian
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we' got tongas we got people we got sha
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people different countries you've
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integrated them here yeah you guys are
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you seeing this this is legit this is
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five star in the rural areas so this is
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the Gaz and it is upst G it's called
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upstairs where did the idea of creating
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something like this come
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from well it's kind of a long story okay
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um I came to Vic FS on holiday yeah and
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then I thought I'd like to settle and
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have a property here okay then when I
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decided to like S have a property here I
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thought okay where would I go I looked
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at the city it was so crowded so I just
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thought forget that let me just um you
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know consider somewhere else okay so uh
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I went back to the UK and then when I
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went to the UK I started a shipping
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company okay and the people who first
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loaded the the the contents of the
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shipping were from Victoria Falls so
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they filled the whole lry and then uh we
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came down to Victoria Falls to come and
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clear their items so once we were around
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here we started looking at different
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places and as we looking at different
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places I looked at the city the CB and I
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still said it was too crowded then I
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came down this side in the village and I
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thought yeah I'd like Village and then I
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thought okay this is nice different
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places to go then I was off of the place
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and um when I was off of the place then
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I was in town with the family members
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and I was talking to my brother-in-law
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and I said you know what I want to call
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this project project panal cuz I'm going
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to have a house to retire and some
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animals around and I said I just want to
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call it Cottage panal here my brother G
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we have a great project that we
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undertaking this is a cluster
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development nine units are available for
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sale and each unit sitting on 250 S M of
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land three bedrooms with the main
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bedroom having an insit open concept for
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the kitchen and Lounge solar and bio gas
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digestor for gas and electricity needs
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the finished unit with everything it's
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95,000 95,000 yes it's located in
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headfield uh Harari yes headfield Harari
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so as you can see there's currently some
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construction that's happening we
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currently working on the Outer Perimeter
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and then we are going to start doing the
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the houses and there's privacy there's
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privacy yeah when you argue you can come
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cool off yeah exactly that's it I don't
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think people when they come to places
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like this they argue they don't argue
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don't argue even if you try it's
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impossible
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you argue about breakfast at 10: or 9:9
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who was waking up earlier that yeah you
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still have it you still got
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it thank you thank you so much thank you
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for for this wonderful opportunity I
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never thought that I would come to a
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place like this at the end of the day
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it's God and you know meeting people
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like K it's amazing it's amazing I think
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I know that God is trying is is doing in
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fact something big something big is
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about to come out of Zimbabwe that's it
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no thank you Kevin it's a pleasure thank
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you so much he's out he's been rooting
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for us before I even you know met him
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andly they've really been rooting for us
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and you know I hope we'll do big things
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in this you guys made it easy for us to
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talk in boardrooms so e it's so easy you
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know when someone says it doesn't work
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we like
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well have a look at exhibit a
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besides playing this video there's a
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newspaper or everything I mean you guys
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I mean biggest thing was God how we
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going to convince people then God was
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like don't
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