by admin | Aug 24, 2025 | Education Articles
Reed Martin and Austin Richenor, two members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, did what probably most of us as pupils always wanted to do and that was reduce Shakespeare’s plays to a single sentence, instead of sentencing us to three or four hours of complicated...
by admin | Aug 17, 2025 | Education Articles
Jonathan Kaplan refereed a school First team rugby match here in Zimbabwe a few weeks ago. That may not mean much to many readers – until we hear that he refereed seventy international Test matches, refereed at four Rugby World Cups, refereed 161 Currie Cup matches in...
by admin | Aug 17, 2025 | Sports Articles
What languages are we teaching at schools? And what is the point of learning languages? Such are questions that many people ask nowadays. However, what has any of that to do with an article on school sport? We do well to ask that as well. We might easily argue that...
by admin | Aug 10, 2025 | Education Articles
Mosquitoes are a pain. There is the old saying that there is nothing worse than hearing a mosquito when you are lying in bed in the dark – except for then not hearing it! When it goes quiet, then we start to flap around, hitting ourselves in a vain attempt to squash...
by admin | Aug 10, 2025 | Sports Articles
What is written on people’s gravestones can be interesting and amusing. Hank Williams had “I’ll never get out of this world alive” written on his – there can be no argument about that (if we consider it purely in physical terms, we might note though). Spike Milligan,...
