"Recently, I was back in Zimbabwe to take a 1,000-km road trip...to report on the country's troubled post-Mugabe 'reboot' and to seek stories away from the news headlines and outside the political scene of Harare," writes Ben Sheppard, a reporter based in Johannesburg.
The stories he found "all offered glimmers of hope for Zimbabwe's future, but they also exposed how much resilience is required on a daily basis... and .... the excitement of being on the road in Zimbabwe was tempered by the sense of its decades of wasted potential during the Mugabe years -- and a gloomy feeling that the country's struggles are far from over."
