by admin | Feb 15, 2026 | Sports Articles
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...
by admin | Feb 15, 2026 | Education Articles
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...
by admin | Feb 8, 2026 | Education Articles
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...
by admin | Feb 8, 2026 | Sports Articles
Helen Rowland was an American journalist and humourist in the first half of the twentieth century who often wrote about love, marriage and relationships, usually with a cryptic, satirical but humorous tone. She once declared “There are only two kinds of men; the dead...
by admin | Feb 2, 2026 | Sports Articles
What abilities do we have? What abilities do we seek to develop in our children? What is the greatest ability? We will no doubt immediately think of sporting or academic ability as that is on what we tend to rank people – on their ability (rather than on their...
