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Why I had a girlfriend two months after my wife’s death

This is a true story about the challenges and loneliness I faced when my wife of 39-years died in July 2020, just a few months after the Covid-19 outbreak.

I was 68. The loneliness was so intense that I just felt I needed company. Someone to talk to. But I was also very selective. The woman I ended up with was working some one thousand kilometres away in Johannesburg. I was in Bulawayo. We were at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak which barred travelling. 

To read what happened, you can buy this booklet for only $1.

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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