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Without Jubilee, as if he never lived among us, as if he never took us to places where angels live, transforming fantasy into reality, dragging us into football’s wonderland, with his flicks, with his tricks, making it look so easy, so beautiful, it was simply irresistible. There will always be one Joel Shambo, a genius, […]
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Fabisch’s Dream Team, like Drogba’s Elephants, were the shining symbol of sporting immortality. THE three-hour road trip took us north, past villages still bearing the scars of war, past villagers still haunted by the horror of armed conflict. We were in a battered taxi, the driver and I, having met at the airport and somehow […]
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In Zororo’s silence, I still hear his voice, in his loneliness, I feel his company and in his absence, I feel his presence I DID NoT know Zororo Makamba, never spoke to him, never met him and never chatted to him online. But, I know him now. Which, in itself, is a paradox in that […]
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DESERTED streets, deserted schools, deserted pubs, deserted churches, deserted stadiums and deserted parks, just like a scene borrowed from those post-apocalyptic movies. Big cities reduced into ghost towns, as if some alien invasion of Earth occurred overnight, the fears, the tears, the dead and the dying. A world in lockdown, being devoured by something that […]
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Sharuko on Saturday ERIC CLAPTON will turn 75, just a day after the scheduled 2021 AFCON qualifier between the Warriors and the Desert Foxes, that is if it goes ahead as scheduled, on the neutral fields of Johannesburg. After a music career that started in 1963, the year Dynamos were formed, Clapton has sold over […]
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THERE are things that simply blow you away, like reading about the enduring impact you have made on other people’s lives, through simply doing your work.
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TOMORROW I will turn 50 and, if I was as rich as Neymar, I would have thrown a wild party, and invited Rihaana, who turns 32 on Thursday, to provide music for the occasion.
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HAD he lived to this day, Gabriel Hanot would have celebrated his 130th birthday last month on November 6. It’s not a wild wish since Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment lived to the age of 122 years 164 days by the time she died on August 4, 1997. And, ironically, Hanot, was a Fenchman. Hailed by many […]
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THERE are moments in life that remain frozen in memory, which stubbornly defy time and the changing seasons and simply refuse to fade away.
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‘When I see the nine, I think of the lepers our Saviour cleansed, and nine out of the 10 didn’t even thank Him’ IF I’m not watching or writing about sport, it’s possible I will be listening to music from the Bundu Boys to Paul Matavire, from Leonard Dembo to John Chibadura, from the Beatles […]
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And they asked, isn’t he that poor boy from Norton, isn’t his mother’s name Janet, isn’t his brother called Walter? JUST like Knowledge Musona and Khama Billiat today, he was 29 when he finally delivered the prize his country had been waiting for more than two decades — a ticket to the AFCON finals. His […]
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THERE is nothing that gives a blogger wings than knowing that somehow, somewhere your work provided the foundation, which just like that classic Buddie advert, inspired to change someone’s world.
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THE Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi was absolutely rocking, on that winter day on June 14, 2008, with an estimated 28 000 fans of Kenya’s Harambee Stars in full voice.
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YESTERDAY, I marked 27 years of service to this newspaper — just another little statistic in the 128-year history of this media beast which has cast its spell across this country for over a century. This newspaper, born on June 27 1891, when William Ernest Fairbridge launched what was then a weekly handwritten news sheet, […]
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THERE’S something romantic about Bramall Lane — just like Anfield, it has its own stand called the Kop, where the most passionate fans of Sheffield United are found. You feel the raw outpouring of love between the fans and their team. On August 15, 1992, Brian Deane scored the first goal, in the era of […]