Finally found a job

It's only a mini-job, but at least it's in a cultural setting. After surviving the foot surgery, I can now go for long walks again and stand on my feet for several hours without pain. I can finally send money to my son in Mozambique on a regular basis without 'being a burden' to my friends who have been supporting me for years and made my escape from Mozambique possible. He is now 15 and I have not seen him since June 2021, nor my daughter or my grandchildren – a damn long time.

I don't expect to be able to fly back to Mozambique anytime soon – not only for financial reasons, but mainly for security reasons. The Stasi-trained and German-ordered security forces in Mozambique may appear somewhat tarnished after the protests of recent months, with more than 300 deaths so far, but as the brutal killing of my last lawyer, Elvino Dias, and the career of the German-funded Chekist, Albino Forquilha, as an 'opposition' parliamentarian show, the hit squads still ready for action and capable of anything.

As of today, the police are under the command of Joaquim Adriano Sive, most recently police chief of the province of Sofala. Like his predecessor, Bernardino Rafael, Sive is known for taking tougher measures when it comes to defending the regime's power interests and the business interests of dubious gangs. He had studied at the Pedagogical University of Maputo, the nest of ideological education for proven comrades.

I prefer to clean the cultural centre and listen to the rehearsals of the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra.