Who is on Trial here?

Who is on Trial here?

“Digital technology, you are hereby charged with perverting the course of human development and preventing the advancement of cognitive ability in our children over the period of the last fifteen years – how do you plead?” Guilty as sin, surely! Guilty, as charged,...
Crack it with Cricket

Crack it with Cricket

While we are reveling at the moment in Zimbabwe doing well in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, it is interesting to recall how cricket has shown innovation over recent decades to make the game more popular. When once we only had five-day Test matches, soon 40 over...
Over and Out

Over and Out

Many years ago, during a school Inter-House cricket match involving boys who were not regular cricketers, the fast bowler ran in and bowled a ball that went full toss and hit the batter on the head (in the days before helmets were used). It hit him so hard that he...
Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line

An overseas national hockey player (and later national coach) was an eminent, distinguished, highly successful QC by day, in the legal profession, but when it came to a hockey match, he seemed to change dramatically when he stepped onto the pitch and when the whistle...
Holes Bumps Tolls and Blocks

Holes Bumps Tolls and Blocks

Driving in Zimbabwe is exciting, exasperating, extreme and above all, existential – and if we are not careful, we will all become extinct on the roads! We may laugh at it all, such is the true Zimbabwean way, like the old saying that we can tell the drunk drivers in...