I wonder how they got gas or diesel... there is essentially none in Zimbabwe right now. Even cooking oil is getting hard to come by as everyone is running it as diesel in older mechanical engines (which burn it fine)
Lol. That guy was something else.
If you work in SF and spend $5000 on a passion project flying to Zimbabwe, you will have no problem affording gas.
Do you have first hand experience from the last ~month? (since everything has collapsed again)
Friends living there who are very, very well off can not physically get their hands on a single liter of gas or diesel.
I recently spent 6 weeks driving around virtually all of Zimbabwe, I have a pretty good idea how the country works (or at least, before the most recent collapse)
In the last ~month their economy has collapsed. Their currency is worthless, and there is no gas or diesel in the country. I have plenty of friends in the country and get regular updates.
> I recently spent 6 weeks driving around virtually the whole country
I think you should have made it clearer that your initial statement was hyperbole, because if taken literally, how were you driving for 6 weeks?
I drove around for 6 weeks about 5 months ago, which I consider recently.
Something you need to understand about African countries is that things change fast. Much, much faster than you con comprehend if you've never spent significant time there, because our First-World minds expect things to continue on an even keel.
My statement is very much NOT hyperbole. Multiple friends who have lived their entire lives in Zim currently can't get a drop.