"My travel agent tells me one has to almost sign your life away to get flights to Zim."

I don't know what this means. I was there in September and there were a lot of flights from J-burg to the three cities in Zim on SAA.

I flew to Vic Falls. A porter with a card bearing my name escorted me through customs to a charter plane. Everyone was polite, a lot more so than the TSA goons in Atlanta or the porters in J'burg. On the way back, the guy at the airline suggested I wait in the coffee shop and he would come get me when it was time to board. There were a lot of American tourists with their families at Vic Falls.

One of the easiest places to visit I have ever been to.

Don't fly British Air into Zim. They have some asinine rule about your not being allowed to take "weapons" into Zim because the govt. is oppressive in their view.