Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Border Fence & Interesting Finds

Today the iron sheeting for the southern perimeter fence was delivered while the guys finished the framework. We also started work on the frame for a shelter for the security during the construction. Speaking of which, I discovered today that every community has their own little group of people who look after the security of the community - a bit like a neighbourhood watch. This security is run by ex-soldiers and is quite well organised.

Seeing as we need security on site, especially with materials being on site and loads of wood (the latter very sought after due to ban on chopping trees without official authorisation), we decided to employ the local community security, the leader of which is also presently working on the site. They would make available two people for the night shift and for late afternoon and full day shifts, the boys next door will be on site.

Back to the fence, the guys started putting up the iron sheeting in the afternoon and will continue with that tomorrow. Its something that goes reasonably fast especially with a couple of the guys being masons/builders and do these things as if its second nature.

Whilst offloading the stumps at the house this afternoon, something caught my eye in the one tree stump - a bullet casing was stuck inside the wood. It seemed to be from a FN rifle and probably from somewhere during or just after the war in 1994. I have taken photos of it and will upload one soon.

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