PLANET OF THE APE

PLANET OF THE APE

First there was King Kong, terrorising the world. Then there was Planet of the Apes, in which man and apes fought for control in a post-apocalyptic world. Around the same time, on a lighter note, we had King Louie in Jungle Book, the King of the Swingers, the Jungle...
THE MOST LEAST IMPORTANT

THE MOST LEAST IMPORTANT

There is a well-known saying that “Football is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans but rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen”. Some might be tempted to add that “Cricket is a gentleman’s game played by gentlemen” while others have argued that “Ice hockey...
BUILDING A CATHEDRAL

BUILDING A CATHEDRAL

Many of us will be familiar with the story of a man who was walking along the road and came upon three men working with bricks (a not unfamiliar sight here in Zimbabwe currently!) He asked the first man what he was doing and he responded, “I’m laying bricks”. (He no...
WHAT WINNING MEANS

WHAT WINNING MEANS

We all want to win, do we not? It is the one thing that every player goes onto the field to achieve and it is definitely the one thing we know when we come off the field, if we have won or not – all of us know that except, in truth, many a young child who runs around...
GET ME OUT OF HERE

GET ME OUT OF HERE

We may at some stage have come across a remarkable lady by the name of Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke, a German-Peruvian mammalogist who will be best known for being the sole survivor at the age of 17 of a flight  from Lima to Pucallpa, which crashed in the...