girlfriend under water. he wrote in a note, i can t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything i love about you, but everything i love about you i love more every day. will you please be my wife? sadly, he didn t resurface and his girlfriend went on to post in her facebook posts, you never emerged from those depths so you never got to hear my answer. yes, yes, a million times yes, i will marry you. but of course he had already died. she went on to say, we never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together as the best day of our lives turned into the worst in the cruellest twist of fate imaginablimaginable. the u.s. state department confirmed a u.s. citizen had died in tanzania. this went across social media. farai sevenzo, cnn.
independent in 1980. it was until 2000 that it saw the first opposition to the late morgan shankerai s movement. and many are acknowledging that without him, many of the south african states including south africa and namibia will be free, because he was such a belligerent opponent to apartheid, but as it s already said, it was a complicated one. while you were speaking, we saw the sign that was up in there, it said rest in peace. referring to mugabe s plan. and we see the dignitaries, as well as the presidents there as well, the presidents there to, of course, remember this man who are was very important there in africa. the african continent. we appreciate your time, farai sevenzo, and we ll keep in touch
there were some scuffles between parties of mainland china and pro democracy protesters. this time, though, hong kong authorities denied requests for permits to hold weekend demonstrations. we ll continue to follow the story for you, of course. in imxabi, robert mugabe, who had a great deal of influence and power over the african continent for decades is being remembered at a service in zimbabwe s capital, this man loved by many, hated by many as well, he is being remembered this hour. you see so many people who have come together in the nation s capital. and dignitaries around the world are there recalling the man regarded as the founder of zimbab zimbabwe. the funeral planned for sunday has been postponed, though. for more on that, let s go to our own farai sevenzo, a native of zimbabwe. tell us, why the delay there? reporter: well, there are many provocations, george.
and i don t say that lightly. it s a great place i ve grown up in. it s so sad that it keeps going back to bad economy, to violence by the state. it is a personal story from our farai sevenzo. thank you. still ahead, the death toll rising in the bahamas. the scenes there, utter december station from the air, on the ground, even veteran journalists, they re at a loss for words. i ve been covering hurricanes for 37 years now. i ve never seen devastation like that. our gary tuchman, he s covered a lot of storms. for him to say that, it means a lot. we ll have more after this. get free smartphones too! get 4 new lines of unlimited and 4 free phones for just 30 bucks a line!
and our farai sevenzo was telling us about the day he covered the transition of power to the current president emmerson mnangagwa. many people were excited. they were elate about the possibility of change in that nation. our farai sevenzo pointing out not a great deal of change has happened. we will continue to follow the story and bring you more as we learn more. the other big story we re following, hurricane dorian. it has weakened slightly in the atlantic ocean. now a category 1 storm. it s brushing along the east coast. right now near north carolina. dorian has been leaving, though, a trail of destruction for many days now. one part of south carolina got more than 7.5 inches of rain. that s about 19 centimeters in just six hours time. before that, the bahamas was devastated by dorian. take a look at these images.