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Okay, well, thank you very much for
coming. We're doing a second series of

Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, and
we're looking for some constructive

feedback.

So, I guess the first question I'd ask
is, what did you guys think of the show?

I thought you were really good in it.
Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Because I'll tell you who didn't.

This guy.

This is the cult of stupidity. Romesh
and his posse -mouth sarcastic voiceover

appeal to the sort of people who think
imagination, spirituality and history

things to be sneered at.

At JohnMcRae189.

Arrogant, patronising, ill -informed. So
different from my own experience of

this fascinating country.

Can't even spell my name right. Unfunny
prick.

Terribly unfunny.

This dog reminds me of Romesh
Ranganathan.

It's not just about this feedback.

It's about getting your take. So does
anybody else have any other thoughts?

Can I just say, I thought you were
really great in Travelman.

Do you mean Travelman with Richard
Ayoade?

We're done.

Against my better judgment... This time
I'm going to be visiting Mongolia,

Bosnia, Colombia and Zimbabwe.

Oh my God, he is packing.

I want to know if our preconceptions of
these countries are justified.

Bosnia is the land of miracles.

Is there more to Zimbabwe than Robert
Mugabe?

Is there more to Bosnia than the war?

Is Colombia all about drug cartels?

Now this is beautiful.

Oh my Lord, this is amazing.

I don't really think this is necessary,
do you?

You're just going to feel a little
prick, OK?

So what do you know about Zimbabwe, Rob?

When you think about Zimbabwe, you think
about Robert Mugabe and you think about

the reclaiming the farmland from the
white farmers

in Zimbabwe and sort of the violence and
the turmoil in the country, which has

gone on for such a long time, you sort
of hope that because this reign has come

to an end that...

Things have started to sort of settle
down a bit in the last year or so. But

then you look in the news more recently
and fuel shortages have meant there have

been protests and violence.

It feels like Mugabe's round coming to
an end might have been a bit of a false

dawn. So it's difficult to know what to
expect, really.

Was I a good boy?

You did very well.

I travelled from London to Zimbabwe, a
landlocked country of 18 million people,

formerly known as Rhodesia.

At the time of my visit, a year after
the fall of the dictator Robert Mugabe,

the country had declared itself safe,
stable and open for business.

Although I'd also read that many people
didn't necessarily expect that stability

to last.

My flight landed at Victoria Falls
International Airport, in the northwest

the country, where I was met by my guide
and host for the week.

Hello, Chupo.

Hi.

How are you? I'm well, thank you.
Pleasure to meet you. Pleasure to meet

Thank you very much for doing this sign.

Did I get your name correct?

Yes. It's really nice.

Beautiful handwriting as well. Thank
you. How are you? I'm well, thank you.

Welcome. Thank you. Chupo Chikara is a
teacher born and raised in the capital

city of Harare who'd volunteered to show
me the site.

These guys are on a lunch break or
something?

Yeah, usually they don't.

Okay, can't be arsed now, though. No, I
think right now they're just chilling.

Did you

have any

preconceived ideas about them?

My preconceptions about Zimbabwe are
one, Victoria Falls, and two, unrest.

Do you want me to be able to see that?

That's the literally correct way of
that.

Those are the two things I know. Falls
and unrest.

Nothing stable.

Everything falling or shaky.

Chipo explained that for anyone under
the age of 40, Robert Mugabe was the

leader they'd ever known. But he'd also
left the country in a state of near

total economic collapse.

with foreign tourists almost non
-existent.

You're here at a time where we're still
sort of processing the past 12

months. Yeah.

We're trying to navigate the economy and
where we're headed as

a nation. Because 12 months is not long
enough to see what the...

What the effects of that are going to
be, right? I think so. I think we've

so frustrated for so long, that whole
unrest thing, that we wanted something

happen sooner and faster.

So where are we going?

Our first stop will be the falls
themselves. I mean, who comes to

and doesn't go to the falls?

We're going to cross over to Zambia. Our
first activity.

In Zimbabwe is to leave the country.
It's the only time we're going to cross

over and see any other nation.

Good, on our tour of Zimbabwe. Yeah, I
would have thought so.

One of the great things about Zimbabwe
is to see the best bits, you only have

leave the country once. You don't have
to take the key.

Shippo told me that although the best
views belong to Zimbabwe, the actual

are in Zambia.

Apparently over a million tourists visit
Victoria Falls each year.

an influx of visitors that remained
constant even during Zimbabwe's most

troubled periods.

Look at this, my favourite part of
Zimbabwe, Zambia. You are now entering

Zambia.

Having arrived in Zambia, we took a
short boat ride to Livingston Island,

I fulfilled my contractual obligation to
get naked in every episode.

I'm putting a lot of trust in you now.

Well, don't do that.

Thanks, cheaper.

and made my way to the edge of the fall.

See, but it's unbelievable.

Yes! Oh my God!

How amazing is that?

That's incredible!

Known to locals as Mossy Owatunya, the
smoke that thunders, Victoria Falls is

the world's largest sheet of falling
water, the UNESCO World Heritage Site,

one of the seven natural wonders of the
world.

The Devil's Pool, situated right on the
edge of the falls, is they only open at

specific times of the year, when the
current is gentle enough to prevent

being swept away to their death.

Although, to be honest, I'm not
convinced Crawley Council would have

off.

Normally, I would expect this to be the
big closer for my trip, and you've

opened with it.

Is it really going to get better than
this?

It will.

And this is the whole point, right? When
people arrive and they say they've seen

them, this is all they've seen, but
there's so much more to see.

Right. It's going to take a lot to top
this.

Why don't you wear it? One more look.
One more look before we go back.

This is amazing.

Genuinely incredible.

Cheapo explained that although Victoria
Falls has remained popular, few visitors

have been venturing beyond this small
corner of the country.

She wanted to show me what they were
missing out on, a grand tour of Zimbabwe

that would take in...

Wildlife.

Stunning vistas.

Wildlife.

Vibrant modern cities.

Wildlife.

And Great Lakes.

We would begin with a trip just up the
road to get up close and personal with

some wildlife at the Victoria Falls
Wildlife Trust.

If you were given the option to touch
one, would you? No.

Why?

Because I think if you touch a wild
animal,

And it bites your arm off.

Nobody feels sorry for you.

But what if it's used to people?

It might not have met somebody with the
same physique as me.

And so it feels threatened?

No, it doesn't feel threatened. It just
thinks, he looks chewy.

I shouldn't be quieter.

I could be summoning animals.

Yeah, I mean, you're supposed to be
quiet and you'll laugh.

Literally, I'm going to have to just not
say anything because you laugh at

anything. What I don't want to do is say
something and then hear your laughter

as I die.

This is pretty cool, though, being
around here, isn't it?

This is us.

Oh, man.

Hey! Oh my God, that is amazing.

Sylvester is a cheetah whose entire
cheetah family were tracked down and

murdered by an evil lion when he was
just a baby.

Humans found him and cared for him, sort
of like a reverse jungle book.

Then, when Sylvester was old enough to
be released back into the wild, he

refused to go.

Now he works as a sort of figurehead for
the country's attempts to protect their

endangered cheetahs. An icon known as
Sylvester the Cheetah Ambassador.

And I had been granted an audience.

It is actually possible for us to go and
meet Sylvester and get to see him from

close up. This is what I would consider
personally close.

What is the code of conduct for
approaching Sylvester?

We

were

told by Sylvester's handler that he's
very friendly. He then listed the 28

things that you could do to make
Sylvester attack you.

And it's very difficult to sort of fully
focus on how tame he is when you know

that... If you're the wrong star sign,
it'll claw your face off.

Hey, handsome boy. You notice he does
purr?

Yeah.

The sound that he's just making briefly.

He does that when he's content and
comfortable.

Hey, guys.

Ooh, that was crazy.

Sylvester, it turns out, moves very,
very slowly, unless I am anywhere near

Because as soon as Cheapo and I sat down
to give him a stroke, he moved his head

very, very quickly.

which caused the immediate arrival of a
turtle head into my shorts.

That's... Just peed a little. That was
unfortunate for my pants.

We're going to back away now.

Yeah.

I've got to be honest with you. Now,
even if we get in the vehicle, he will

able to track me because I've shat
myself.

My first impression is I love it so far.

I mean, how can you not?

I saw one of the most incredible scenes
I've ever seen at Victoria Falls, and

I've just hung out with the cheetah
ambassador.

Do you know what I mean? Like, if I turn
around to you and said I'm not enjoying

Zimbabwe, what does that say about me?

Do you know what I mean?

I love it.

It's great.

Is there any negative points about
Zimbabwe?

Um, I would say the fucking flies.

What's your feeling towards Chupa? Do
you think she finds you funny?

I think Cheapo finds breathing funny.

I don't think there is anything that
Cheapo wouldn't find funny. I genuinely

think if I came over after doing this
little chat to you, went over to Cheapo

and said, what have you been up to? And
I said, I was just explaining to the

camera that I've recently had a
bereavement. I think she'd piss herself.

I just found out that I'm basically had
a bereavement in the UK.

When did this happen?

I ate that you just did.

I told you.

I'm not supposed to laugh at that.

No.

The next morning, we set off on our
grand Zimbabwean adventure, heading

towards the second city of Bulawayo.

Are these commuter vehicles?

Yes. How comfortable are they?

You are trapped in there like sardines.

Shepo had said that post -Migabi, the
Zimbabwean economy was still extremely

fragile. At the time of my visit, there
were massive queues at every petrol

station in the country.

The fallout of the latest economic
crisis to have swept Zimbabwe.

That's not just a little queue.

Do people queue for hours? Oh yeah,
people will park their car in a petrol

and maybe find someone to sit with their
car and...

they'll go away, and that person that
you've left with your car calls you and

like, hey, Ramesh, the queue is starting
to move, come back. And then you come

back, and you start going.

And how likely is it that I get a phone
call saying, hey, Ramesh, I now own your

car?

It's interesting, because I haven't
heard any stories of someone getting

car stolen.

Isn't that lovely? But where are you
going to drive it to, though? Oh, that's

true.

Good luck, mate.

Chipo said that post -Mugabe, economic
crises were supposed to have been

consigned to history.

A former schoolteacher who fought
against Ian Smith's white government in

Rhodesian Bush War, Robert Mugabe led
his ZANU -PF party to victory in the

country's first election.

Once a source of great hope for
Zimbabwe, his final years were beset by

allegations of human rights abuses and a
series of financial meltdowns.

the most infamous of which was the
eviction of the white farmers.

This would have been one of the white
-owned farms.

But this is still in operation,
obviously.

Yes, there is farming that's still
taking place here.

By the turn of the millennium, with
Mugabe desperately needing to blockade

power base, the government initiated a
fast -track land reform programme,

effectively transferring 4 ,000 white
farms to black ownership by force.

To a lot of people, it looked like it
was an effort to shore up support and

trying to figure out how to hold on to
power and saying the land should go back

to black people. What was sad about that
is in the media, you would see that

side where it was like the suffering of
the white families. And I don't minimize

that at all because it was, it was
terrible for them.

But then also now on the flip side, you
had.

The effect of the reforms was
catastrophic.

Without the experience of running large
farms, the crop soon failed.

Zimbabwe went from being known as the
breadbasket of Africa to the basket case

of Africa, with inflation at one point
hitting 179 .6 billion per cent.

essentially like lost value hugely and
zeros just started to be added and i

a couple of notes just to show you so
this is one billion yep and

that isn't the biggest of the two notes
because this one is 20 trillion you'd be

in a shop i've picked something up off
of a shelf i'm waiting it was one price

by the time i get to the till it's a
different price are you serious no joke

Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, it actually
happened.

Yeah. And the prices of things were
doubling every day.

How it came to an end is that the
economy was dollarised.

So basically we adopted the US dollar as
the currency of the nation.

With the land distribution and the
economic problems, we in Britain, you

in the West or whatever, saw these
images and that is one of...

The main reason is that people in their
heads decided that Zimbabwe was a no -go

zone. You know, this isn't somewhere you
come.

Particularly for, you know, if you're a
white person in Britain watching the TV

and you see what's happening to white
people in Zimbabwe, why would you come?

you know what I mean? And that is
something that has stayed with people.

When the media is pushing this
narrative, it's a tough sell. But it's

beautiful country and more people do
need to come and see that.

And just switching up that narrative,
you're not in danger.

We continued south towards Zimbabwe's
second city of Bulawayo.

What was alarmingly referred to as a
quick drive.

So, a six -hour drive, is that what
Zimbabwe folk think is OK, a six -hour

drive?

We could have flown, but I wanted you to
see the countryside. I get it, I get

it. Along the way, Chupo wanted to show
me the Kami ruins, capital of a dynasty

that had thrived in this area in the mid
-16th century.

So where we're going, Kami ruins. I
think in order to understand Zimbabwe

you have to look at the history of
Zimbabwe. And Kami ruins is a part

of that. Okay. In terms of early
civilization in Zimbabwe.

Does that make sense? It does make
sense. You've explained it really

beautifully. Thank you.

It shows proof that there were people
living, breathing, functioning quite

before.

colonialism started are you serious a
whole people was functioning before

happily before uh cjr landed cjr

this is john rose and he turned up and
he was like and he said wow there is

nothing going on in this country i'm
gonna set it up i'm gonna and i'm gonna

call it yeah

That's a big move, isn't it? It is a big
move. That is a big move.

Exactly. Like, what I think is a big
move is the first time you tell someone

that's what you're thinking about
calling it.

So, Cesar, what are you thinking about?

I'm thinking... Um... Exactly.

Rhodesia. Wait, your name?

And then, you know, was that the first
attempt?

He might have gone for Rodistan.

Maybe. Maybe.

Maybe. He thought...

Rodilea. Rodilea.

Rodipo. Cow. And now we're going to stop
because there is a cow.

Come on, mate, there's loads of grass
there. Why would you go on the road?

What a prick.

Somebody later pointed out that roads
didn't actually decide the name of the

country. It was just named in his
honour, but that sort of ruined the

This is perfect.

How so?

Sorry, I mean, in England, when we say
perfect, we mean utter dog shit.

Fuck, Adam.

I missed that.

For years, the very existence of Kami
and the larger related site at Great

Zimbabwe was a source of controversy in
white -dominated Rhodesia.

So whatever grain that was harvested
would have been stored in that area.

As recently as the 1970s, archaeological
evidence was being suppressed to

continue the pretense that black people
simply hadn't built these structures.

They had a way that they found and
survived that was functional for them,

just shows that people knew what they
were doing.

One of the interesting things, I think,
with colonisation is the absolute.

The indigenous people could have done
this on their own.

But they did.

Allegedly.

This is clearly evidence that people had
a way of life.

They existed. It was like a metropolis.
It was like its own little city.

I just can't believe that white people
didn't have some involvement in this. Do

you know what I mean? They had to have
done. I don't know what you mean.

How is it possible?

I just don't understand it.

Oh, my God.

At this point, the mildly annoying rain
shower, suddenly and without warning,

turned into a lightning storm of
biblical proportions.

We hid in the car.

Ask me this question. In Zimbabwe, when
there's a storm, does it always sound

like the apocalypse?

No, actually.

Usually it's just rain, but today is a
special kind of something.

Okay.

Did you see that?

It's okay, it's not going to get out.
Why is the lightning like that?

We decided to cut our losses and head
straight to Bulawayo.

On the way.

Chippo explained that a succession of
white minority governments culminated in

the leadership of Ian Smith in the 60s
and 70s, who repeatedly blocked black

pastor power in order to build his
whiter, brighter Rhodesia.

I don't believe in black majority rule
ever in Rhodesia. Not in a thousand

years.

Many consider the problems experienced
by modern Zimbabwe to be a direct result

of the oppressive policies of that
period.

We are now sitting in... Rhodesia.

Yes.

So what is your feeling on places like
this?

Architecturally speaking, I think it's
beautiful.

Yeah.

Historically, I think I find it
interesting.

In the city of Bulawayo, we had checked
into the Bulawayo Club, founded at the

end of the 19th century.

With pictures of Cecil Rose adorning the
walls...

This old -fashioned gentleman's club is
a throwback to a bygone era, when the

place would have played host to the
great, the good and the not -so -good of

Rhodesia.

You're being very polite, but you're
sitting here and you disagree with it,

don't you?

I... It's great.

You're talking to me like I'm one of
Rhodes' descendants.

Just tell me what you really think. You
don't like it? I don't... I don't... I

don't like it.

I think one of the reasons I find spaces
like this a little cringy is because

once upon a time, there were spaces for
strictly white men,

and anyone that looked like me was part
of the workforce.

Yeah. The other way of looking at it,
though, is that it's a sign of how times

have changed for the better. If this had
happened...

In the past, that you and me had come in
here and had a drink on there, they

would have just burnt this sofa.

Possibly. Yeah.

Unusable. With us on it. Yeah, probably.

Symbolically, this place is quite
difficult, but we will go into it a

more tomorrow when we go to Cecil John
Rhodes' grave and talk about the history

a little bit.

And then we'll also...

Have some rhino encountered.

Really? Yeah.

Yeah. The rhino is one of the big five.

I love rhinos. Do you really? Yeah.

So we'll get to see them. Yeah, I'm
looking forward to it. But not too

But you've touched a cat that can eat
you. I touched a cheetah and then almost

immediately touched cloth when it moved
its head really quickly.

Yeah? Leo?

Oh, you've got a massive gas canister.

The following day, Cheapo bowled into my
room at 7am and declared that it would

be a good idea to make up some homebrew
to take with us on our trip to the

national park.

I don't know about you, but I think this
feels so safe.

A gas canister you've bought from the
market, we're now going to use to make

homebrew. Exactly.

I can't see this going wrong.

Her plan was to make a vat of maheo, a
sort of local beer made up from powder.

Although she claimed that all
Zimbabweans do this all the time, Chipo

extremely hazy on the details, and it
was my guess that this was the first

she'd attempted the process.

OK, here we go. This is starting to
paste up now.

That is pasting up.

There we go. That's what I'm talking
about. That's good mahea.

Good mixing. Well done, sir.

We need boiling water.

Go on then.

Get the kettle on the go.

I don't trust homemade shit.

You know when people say, oh, do you
want to try this chutney I've just made?

No.

Because I've been to your house and it's
rank.

We didn't rinse out the pot. I don't
know what the powder is.

We're using a sex toy to mix it.

We're doing it in the bathroom because
we should be able to extinguish the fire

if it gets out of control.

Those taps barely work.

Give you an idea.

Is this a thing that everybody knows how
to make here? There are enough people

that know how to make it properly.

But it's been commercialised, so you get
different flavours.

So you can buy this ready -made?

Yes. Why buy it instantly when you can
spend hours making a much worse version?

Well, that is not lumpy at all.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to
concentrate on anything else today.

Wait until you taste it.

Mm -hm.

It's sort of...

Do you... You know Maltesers? If you
don't one of them and fuck them on your

arsehole, it stings.

Leaving the beer to brew for the day, we
set off to Motobo National Park, known

for its gravity -defying balancing
rocks, the grave of Cecil Rhodes, and

population of rhino.

Although the park is open to the public,
I was told that the relatively low

numbers of tourists in Zimbabwe meant
that we would pretty much have the place

to ourselves.

We'd be shown around by Ian, one of the
guides who works here looking after the

population of endangered rhinos.

What's the percentage chance we're
actually going to see some rhino?

99%. 99 %?

Yeah.

And have you got black and white rhinos
here?

23 black and then just over 40 white.

Do they ever get it on and then you get
a little baby grey rhino?

Incredibly, never that we've ever
recorded. Really?

When a rhino's ready to mate, two males
need to fight for a female to reach a

peak of oestrus for conception to occur.

Wow. She gets turned on watching the
guys beating living daylights out of

other. Yeah. Yeah.

There's a pub near where I live called
the Jubilee Oak.

Okay. And it's a bit like that there.

A couple of guys fighting and then one
of them takes the girl home.

Do you still get blown away when you see
this?

I did consider explaining to Ian how
it's possible to not love your kid, but

decided to let it go.

Clearly,

Ian was infatuated with his 63 Rhino and
wanted me to get the experience of

spotting them from the front of his
Jeep.

How safe is this, to be honest?

Not very.

Sorry. Shut up, chief. There we go.

Are you getting a strap?

No, we can't tie you in.

We haven't lost anybody yet.

There's no traffic coming the other
direction. Don't take the piss, Ian.

Shit!

Shit!

I

did

ask about the health and safety
situation and Ian explained that it was

perfectly safe.

At least it was perfectly safe in
comparison to the rhinos, which, it

transpired, were extremely dangerous.

I cannot overemphasise the danger.

A white rhino will run 50, 55 k's an
hour and will hit top speed in three or

four seconds.

Oh, my God.

Rhinos get scared, things go wrong.

If that happens, freeze.

You run, you get chased.

Very simple.

only in an emergency.

And then you are going to hear me
shouting and screaming, run, get the...

Dodge. You'll know all about it. You can
swear if it's actually happening. Find

a rock or a tree, get out of their way.

OK, let's do it.

Let's do it.

I don't know what I'm trying to lead.

You look so confident.

Through the trees.

Big grey shape.

Oh, my God.

Now we're going to go and say hello and
get close.

This feels really close.

It's a good boy. It's a good boy.

How great is it to be?

I cannot believe this is up five or six
meters away from a couple of tons of

beast. And did you feel how there's no
aggression? There's no threat. An animal

that's 50 million years old.

They're dying out, and we're the only
reason they've been killed.

And this is because people are using the
rhino horn for...? Supposedly Viagra.

Viagra and medicine.

In order to prevent the rhinos from
being poached, the park rangers have

the horns, a common practice amongst
conservationists.

It doesn't hurt the animals, and Ian
explained that the horns will grow back,

the same way that a fingernail does.

But even now, the animals remain at
risk.

It's so mad that it's so valuable But it
doesn't actually doing it. I mean, it's

stupid They disappeared on us. We go and
see if we can try and catch up with

them Yeah, there's no chance that
they've come around and they're about to

attack I Don't know. There's always a
chance Except where did he go

now? I've just lost him.

Just give me a second. I've got to go
back. God. This is our aliens You can

where he's been stepping We can't see
them, we can't see them. Suddenly it

out straight there.

Cheapo, Romesh Kebab.

But Ian's quite far away from us now.

If a rhino turns up over there and
charges us, let me be absolutely clear,

will leave you behind in a heartbeat.

Are you supposed to stand still? No.
You're supposed to stand still if you're

the only people that are being targeted.

You can stand still.

We're gone.

We're gone.

We're gone.

You left me hanging before. It was
really awkward.

Yeah, and I'll leave you hanging if a
rhino turns up.

There they are. To the left, the termite
nine is a grey bum walking to the right

behind the trees.

They head when they want to go, they go.

Come on, let's go catch them.

How many more have you got in the park?

Just over 60.

Nine years ago I had over 156.

The rest have been poached.

I didn't know until I spoke to you how
desperate the situation was for them.

The scariest part is chances are your
kids will be looking at photos and

memories saying, guess what Dad saw? I
will probably never see that in my life.

I truly hope I'm wrong.

You see those figures and stats so much
that you just become completely

desensitised to it. But then when you
talk to him today, you just realise that

it's very real. And in the very short
term, they could be gone completely. I

mean, my issue is that my voice and
face... display, I would say, close to

sincerity.

So, in many ways, I'm the wrong guy to
be doing this.

But what can we do?

We're not going to be able to airlift in
Sue Perkins now at this stage, are we?

It's Fable. Wow!

That is special. Fable ahead of us.

And a wood pig.

As the sun started to set, we headed off
towards a granite peak known as the

View of the World, the final resting
place of Cecil Rhodes.

Always controversial, Rhodes has become
an even more divisive figure in recent

years. The Rhodes Must Fall movement
successfully campaigned for the removal

his image at universities across South
Africa, and a highly charged debate over

a statue outside Oriel College in Oxford
continues to rumble on.

I wanted to know how Ian...

who takes tourists to the gravesite
every day, felt about the controversy.

Since I've been here, I've been talking
a lot about Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes.

Yes. And what is your take on him?

One of the most amazing men that ever
lived.

Because? He did more in a shorter period
of time than any other person dead or

alive.

Rhodes made his first million pounds in
1870 at the age of 18, dealing the

diamond stock exchange.

22, he founded De Beers Diamonds.

23, he created the Brissaf Company.

27, he was Member of Parliament.

37, he was Prime Minister.

At 49, at his death, the richest man in
the world owned six countries and two

named after him.

So what is your opinion on why, in
Britain, the idea of celebrating roads

considered a tricky issue?

No, because Britain's embarrassed
about... The historical legacy.

We can't look at it from today's
mindset.

They try and push that he was racist.

That's one thing Rhodes never was.

It's very interesting to listen to you
talk about your admiration of

Cecil John Rhodes, right? And walking
through how you view that.

And I, as a black Zimbabwean woman,

I struggle with part of his legacy
because, you know, one of the quotations

is attributed to him, and I'm not going
to quote it correctly at all, but it was

referring to natives as barbaric. And to
me, I'm just like, wow.

That's exactly what, and I hear what
you're saying, but that's exactly why

you've got to take it in context of its
time.

I think it's hard for me to not see it
as a racial thing, that someone comes

arrives and looks at my people and calls
them, refers to us as savages and

barbaric and that I have to learn the
Anglo -Saxon way because it is superior

the way I'm living. You arrived and
there was a way of life, but it's just

disrespect.

No, it's not disrespect.

It is disrespect.

It's not. To look at me and tell me the
way you're doing things is wrong. Like,

I'm sorry, man. You just don't get
around and say that. Like, you can't

that.

Don't. Don't feel like you're a superior
being.

They weren't saying they were superior.
They were, though. When you say the

Anglo -Saxon way of life is the way that
people should do things because the way

my people are doing things is barbaric,
I'm sorry, that is a superiority

complex. You are looking down on me.

Cheapo, you know, she'd been saying to
me earlier in the week that she felt

this kind of conversation hasn't
happened enough.

Well, she tucked in.

It was interesting to hear the same
thing being presented with,

from completely different, you know, the
same facts, if you like, being

presented with completely different
filters.

And it was interesting to listen to, and
also a great illustration of the

futility of political argument, because
neither of those two guys were ever

going to go, do you know what, I'll hold
my hands up.

It was... Yeah, it got really heated.

Oh, God.

Where is his actual grave?

Up top.

Can you point?

My hands are full.

But we did it.

Having said our goodbyes to Ian, we made
our way to the top of the hill to watch

the sunset and enjoy our homemade beer.

You've done good, sir.

Don't turn around just yet.

Here lie the remains of the man himself,

Cecil John Rhodes.

Look, it's called World's View.

Wow.

Did you enjoy your day?

Yes, I did enjoy the day, very much. I
couldn't help noticing you got a little

bit passionate earlier.

I didn't realise how worked up I would
get about the whole conversation.

But I'm glad to have the debate.

And I don't know if it's a debate that
we're having enough of.

Because that's the difficult thing,
isn't it? You're not debating with an

He's a nice guy who just has an opposing
view to you. Yeah.

When you look across at all of this, you
do think the perfect thing to do now

would be to sit and drink something we
made in a bathtub.

Are you ready to partake?

Of our concoction.

Why are you saying all that?

It hasn't changed colour at all, has it?

No.

No,

I think you should go first. You're a
guest.

Knock it back.

So, yes?

It tastes like somebody's already drank
it.

You're right, that's difficult.

That was hard.

That is horrible.

I did say, though, that some people add
sugar, right?

Do you know what it tastes like? It
tastes like yogurt made out of hate.

I was roughly halfway through my time in
Zimbabwe, and apart from the terrifying

experience with the cheetah and the
terrifying experience with the

and the awkward argument about Cecil
Rose and the disgusting homebrew, I had

loved every moment of it.

This has been amazing.

It's like one of the... I would say it's
one of the best places I've been to.

When people think about visiting
Zimbabwe and the reason that people

perhaps doubt, you know, not wanting to
come and visit Zimbabwe, certainly from

our country, is because of their
perception of there being political

here. And that is not something that I
have seen firsthand since my time here

Zimbabwe. But we've been out and about
and looking at, you know, nature and

wildlife, etc.

So you're not going to come up against
that as much.

For the simple fact there's not as many
people around it. You know, we're

looking at nature more than anything
else. But when we go to Harare, that's

I think...

those issues have become more prevalent
in the trip. And so I'm interested to

see how much that is going to colour the
rest of my time here.

I would love to say to people, you know,
you come to Zimbabwe and you get really

close to wildlife, and that's such a
wonderful thing. But I would also say

one of the most terrifying things about
Zimbabwe is that you get really close to

wildlife.

Because this morning...

They found something that I don't think
I'll ever forget.

That is a black mamba that was found in
the honeymoon suite

where we're staying.

That couple are both dead.

Apparently the honeymoon couple woke up
and then saw one of the most dangerous

snakes in the world on their roof. He
called for hotel staff and they came and

shot the snake dead.

That same woman from that couple the day
before had been

on a little safari trip and was
stampeded by an elephant and

the elephant was shot dead.

I can only assume that what has happened
is this snake was very good friends

with that elephant.

We continued our journey northeast to
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

Sheepo's home city and the seat of
government.

From there, the plan was to head back up
north to Lake Kariba on the Zambia

border and check out some more wildlife.

We're heading into Harare. Yeah.

Formerly Salisbury.

Formerly Salisbury? Yeah.

What is wrong with the name Salisbury?

It's a perfectly good name.

Look, I'm saying formerly.

Harare.

There is nothing wrong with Harare, sir.

OK, I don't want to offend you.

Yep. But you're going to anyway?

Yeah. No, it's normally what somebody
says before they say something hugely

racist.

But why are your people savages?

Harare is somewhere where I think it's
fair to say British people, up until

recently, they wouldn't come here
because of what's been going on. When

think about what's outside of Harare.

You know, you have the Vic Falls, you
have Great Zimbabwe, you have all those

places.

It's just... I think the capital or city
doesn't have, like, a huge drawcard for

tourists.

Cheapo had all but admitted that
Harare's not worth visiting, but with a

kill, she took me along to the market
area of Mbare.

Embare is the oldest township in Harare.
And the energy is amazing,

I'm sure you can tell.

There's certainly an energy.

Yeah. So you're from around here, are
you? My mom spent part of her life in

Embare.

Hi.

Hello, how are you? Hello.

Hello. Hello.

Chippo told me that Embare is the oldest
township in the city.

and it's marked the city's economic
heartbeat.

Here, packed into eight square
kilometres, 14 ,000 vendors ply their

This is how a lot of people make their
hustle, by coming out here.

It's so enormous.

Like, it just goes on forever. You know
what enormous means.

But, um...

It's like a massive department store.
You go through the fruit and veg bit,

then you go through the clothing aisle,
and then you go to the hardware store.

There's even a doctor's round there, and
you can literally get anything you

want. It feels like if I was trying to
source helicopter parts, some bloke

here would have them.

I love coming to Mare for clothes
shopping because... So do you still come

clothes shopping?

Yeah, totally.

It's affordable, and it's good stuff. A
lot of Zimbabweans come to places like

this because...

It matches what they have in their
pocket. You know, they can't go to a

clothing store.

It's just like pleasant chaos, if I
describe it. It doesn't feel dodgy. I

we're attracting more attention because
of the camera, but, like, it's fine.

When you come to Harare, I think one
should come to Mbare.

It's amazing.

I was in the market for a megaphone,
actually, didn't I?

Hi, Ramesh. Bernard.

Bernard. Nice to meet you.

That evening, we met up with some of
Cheapo's friends at a local restaurant.

Thank you so much.

What's been your favourite place to
visit on this trip?

I very much enjoyed seeing the rhinos.
We went for a walk with a cheetah.

Me and a cheetah.

We tried to make mayo.

So let me explain to you, I'll tell you
how it went down. We made it in a

bathtub. In a bathtub?

It was absolutely dreadful.

But it has been amazing, genuinely
amazing.

But there is something that feels
slightly wrong about having a great time

taking advantage of a country's
hospitality.

when you feel like the people there are
not having a good time.

That's always been the issue with Zim,
when Zim was sort of boycotted or

blacklisted. It wasn't the people in
power that actually suffer.

It's the one right at the bottom who
don't have jobs. Do you know what I

It's like all our industries then die,
and the people in power still, you know,

like, live their lives as normal.

You need to spend your money there.

You're making it right. Making it right.

Before I left Zimbabwe, Cheapo wanted to
show me one final destination.

So we jumped back into the car and
headed north to Lake Kariba, a massive

-made lake on the Zambezi River.

There, Cheapo said we'd be staying on a
houseboat and seeing more lovely

animals. By this point, I was
unsurprised to hear that it would be a

drive away.

So how did you enjoy Harare?

Well, first of all, I loved your
friends.

They're cool, huh? They were lovely. I
actually think it's one of the places I

think you should come to when you come
to Zim.

Oh, good.

Yeah.

When you come to Zim, you have to go to
Kariba. It's beautiful.

Hopefully we'll see some animals.

Right.

What kind of animals are we talking
about?

Hopefully we'll see elephants.

Yeah, like elephants.

It would be nice to see some crocs.

Crocs can fuck off, yeah. What else?

Hippos. Like hippos?

In Madagascar? She's great, the hippo,
isn't she?

She's so lovely.

She's just concerned about if her bum
looks big in this or whatever.

Yeah. She wants to shag that giraffe.

Do you know what I mean?

Imagine what it would look like, a
giraffe and a hippo getting up.

What would you call the baby?

A gerippo?

Like a baby gerippo.

That kid's having a tough time at
school.

Massive arse, long neck.

Absolute shocker.

Don't sit with that kid. What happened
at school today? I got bullied again.

Why? Because I look like this.

We arrived at our final destination,
Lake Kariba, the world's largest man

reservoir, covering an area of almost 6
,000 square kilometres.

Kariba is seen as one of the big
potential growth spots for the country,

for its world -class fishing and
houseboats.

Feels a little bit small to spend the
night on.

We'll be fine.

Hello?

Ramesh.

Yeah, boy.

Wow!

This is a lot faster than I thought it
was going to be. Yeah.

Can you see that? That's where we're
headed. Oh, cool.

Oh, God.

Are you slightly scared?

Welcome

on

board. Thank you.

Wow. Wow.

Thank you.

Just come in the room.

The plan was to head to the other side
of the lake.

to see the abundant wildlife on the
shores of Matusa Dono National Park.

This is great. Finally, this show steps
up to what I deserve.

And let's go uptown here again.

This is so good. I'm starting to get
emotional.

I think you're going to enjoy it.

Welcome it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. Welcome it.

Is this something that Zimbabweans would
do?

If the boat can afford it, they do it.

I mean, being a landlocked nation, this
would be our equivalent, I guess, of

going to the sea. It's a massive... Ice
world dead ahead!

It was still a five -hour boat ride to
the far side of the lake.

And so we whiled away the time doing
this.

That's it. Keep going. Keep going. Keep
going.

Action.

Beginning to pull apart.

Sleeper, can you just let me on? I need
you to let go.

Back in the land of professional
integrity, we had arrived at the other

the lake.

Look at this.

We duly jumped onto one of the smaller
vessels and headed off towards the

waiting wildlife.

What can you see?

I can see my own eye.

Can you see anything?

Where? There's an elephant.

Where? Oh, there, shit!

Oh, yeah.

Looks like an elephant.

But I don't want to properly confirm
until I'm a bit closer.

Oh, no, that definitely is an elephant.

This is amazing, isn't it?

It is. It's amazing how long it takes me
to find it with the binoculars.

This is so cool.

It is.

Oh, my God.

Simultaneous piss and shit from that
elephant.

Isn't that amazing?

It's incredible.

And he is, I can tell you now, packing.

I am half -minded to stand up and
applaud.

Can you see that?

Yeah.

I mean, you think about the wildlife
experiences I've had since I've been

One of them would be incredible, but to
have so many in such a short... period

of time and to get this close it's mad
basically i've had it ingrained into me

as we all have in britain that because
of robert mcgarvey's reign that this was

basically a no -go era the truth is it's
an amazing country yes it's got a

complicated history yes up until
recently there was a political unrest

things are still in the balance a little
bit but the truth is that doesn't you

know that doesn't affect you as a
visitor here

Zimbabweans themselves want people to
come and visit. And if you do come and

visit, you are putting money into the
country and you are helping the country.

It feels, from a British perspective,
relatively undiscovered because of the

fact that we've stayed away for so long.

It is one of the most impressive
countries that I've ever been to.

And so amazing that you almost think...
Selfishly, you almost think it would be

a shame if everyone found out about it.

I mean, this is properly amazing.

OK, calm down. It's literally right
there.

Jesus. Oh, my God, it's properly looking
right at you.

What I know about Mongolia is being in
the middle of nowhere.

This is pretty weird.

Do a good job, or in the training,
you'll be smashed.