Not Complaining; Just Saying - 2

Further observations
The shiny, shiny floor

No self-respecting cleaner at a mall would leave a floor they couldn't see their face in.  This is of course relentless work because people keep walking on it but you can reduce the number of pedestrians by killing off a few as they slip on your shiny, shiny floor.
The Internet

Let me show you about the internet around Africa and it will give you an idea about why it is so alarmingly expensive and unreliable.

Submarine cables across the world - take a look:
 http://submarine-cable-map-2014.telegeography.com

I don't fully understand it but it can't help only having this small number of cables coming into Namibia or Tanzania, and Zambia being in the middle of the continent therefore being at the end of every line.  The information super-highway is more like a misinformation dirt-track here.

And the suppliers of internet services will make up all manner of nonsense about why the service is poor or non-existent on a particular day.  Of one thing you can be certain though - it isn't their fault!

If you have wireless in your home then likelihood is that you are on a package which includes a designated amount during the daytime for that month and a greater amount 18.00 to 08.00 hours and at the weekend.  Should you go over your amount then the internet will just be cut off until the first of next month.  You can only have packages that run from the beginning to the end of a calendar month.

Health & Safety

Truly a thing of the future - see for yourself!

Steve's classroom entrance, break time

Drainage channels in between buildings at school

Raised drain covers in main play area at school

Working off scaffolding at one of the malls
- note also the shiny, shiny floor

Hole dug by Lusaka Water & Sewage Company
right in the middle of the thoroughfare (one
hesitates to call it a footpath for obvious reasons)

Buildings

It is not apparent that buildings are designed or built with any particular regards for building codes or regulations.  Levels change throughout a building to suit the lie of the land, and the steps might be any height from trip-over-small to surprisingly-and-inconveniently-high.  There are asbestos materials in abundance and any manner of unfinished work left as part of the finished look – bits of rebar still poking through, beams that stick out, columns that only support half the roof they were supposed to.  Nothing built after the colonial powers left is level or vertical and anything built during that time is probably falling down.

Friends' year old rental property, see
column there on the left?

I'm not done yet!