by admin | Oct 16, 2024 | ATS, Education Articles
HAVE we ever considered how many orphans there are in the world? One estimate has given the figure of 153 million. That is a frightening, disturbing, alarming figure. Here in Zimbabwe, there is a huge proportion of orphans (over 26% of children under the age of 18 are...
by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | Education Articles
After being taunted and mocked by his opponents, even having his head kicked and his integrity questioned, Michael Oher, in a scene from the film The Blind Side, in the next move, grabs hold of the one who goads him and runs him back and back and back, eventually...
by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | Sports Articles
Coming first is essential, is it not? It is the whole point of sport, we are led to believe. And then, of course, in order to achieve that, coming first in sport, it will be considered essential to put sport first – before everything else. Nothing must get in the way....
by admin | Sep 30, 2024 | Education Articles
There is a wonderful cartoon that has one character saying, “Benjamin Disraeli said ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’” to which another character responds, “Nine out of ten Americans say it was Mark Twain who said it”! We even get lies...
by admin | Sep 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
The dream of every youngster who plays sport is to play it at the highest level, especially on the international stage. They are very often encouraged, trained and pushed to do so from a young age by parents and coaches alike. Sadly, however, many such stories are not...