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Tag: Sport

20 Ways In Which Sanctions Have Ruined Zimbabwe

by Joe BlackPosted on14 October, 201614 October, 2016

Zimbabwe is in trouble. Fortunately for Zimbabweans, Zimbabwe’s rulers (yes, rulers not governors) through the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd always remind…

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Message of Solidarity to the Zimbabwe Cricket Team

by Joe BlackPosted on13 June, 201615 August, 2016

On the occasion of the Second One Day International against India. We, the residents of Castle Black, are in Solidarity with the Players and Staff…

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Oh Happy Day and Other Stories

by Joe BlackPosted on4 October, 201523 October, 2015

Well, isn’t this nice? England are out of the Rugby World Cup, having been whipped at The Home of Rugby™ by a free-flowing Australia side.…

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How To Be A Zimbabwean Journalist

by Joe BlackPosted on16 September, 201526 September, 2018
Newspapers are held down by rocks to stop them blowing away at a news stand in Harare, Zimbabwe Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Longtime President Robert Mugabe ignored a midday deadline set by the ruling party to step down or face impeachment proceedings, while Zimbabweans stunned by his lack of resignation during a national address vowed more protests to make him leave. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Newspapers are held down by rocks to stop them blowing away at a news stand in Harare. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Or, An Anecdotally-Accumulated Anthology of…

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The Day The Music (Almost) Died

by Joe BlackPosted on26 May, 201528 August, 2015

There was a loud bang, and the bus veered off the Harare-Bulawayo highway. It swerved into the roadside ditch and crashed on its side, plunging the…

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How To Score An Own Goal

by Joe BlackPosted on20 May, 201526 May, 2015

Hello to all our viewers around the world! Welcome to this wonderful Cup Final here at the Giant National Sports Stadium™ in sunny Harare. My…

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Southern Eye Whitewash, Justify Hooliganism

by Joe BlackPosted on3 March, 20153 March, 2015

Following the violence-marred weekend football match between hosts Highlanders and Caps United, I made sure to read match reports from the Bulawayo papers. I only…

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The Red Bandana Club

by Joe BlackPosted on18 February, 20152 March, 2015

Looking at me now, you wouldn’t believe I was once a fresh-faced Grade Seven pupil at Hartley Primary school, in mighty Chegutu town. I was…

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Friendzones And Other Such Nonsense

by Joe BlackPosted on26 January, 201526 January, 2015

A shepherd, or sheepherder, is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards herds of sheep. The word stems from an amalgam of sheep herder.…

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Seedy underbellies (in more ways than one)

by Joe BlackPosted on30 August, 201030 August, 2010

Growing up sometimes presents itself as a kind of strange multiverse. A world in which the comfort of experience confines you to particular spots in…

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