2023-2031 FTP news, updates, etc

> secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:58 am I don’t know. Is that not correct English? It’s used often, especially in e.g. football fixtures. ‘Who are you guys playing this weekend?’ ‘Oh we are at home to Arsenal’. I have been in grim England for three months, forgive me. This place is probably sending me insane.

England isn’t that bad, not as peaceful as KweKwe but I don’t mind it here. Plenty of decent cricket grounds scattered around.

> secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:58 am I don’t know. Is that not correct English? It’s used often, especially in e.g. football fixtures. ‘Who are you guys playing this weekend?’ ‘Oh we are at home to Arsenal’. I have been in grim England for three months, forgive me. This place is probably sending me insane.

Boxing Day will see Man Utd travel to Wolves, and they will finish the 2024/25 campaign at home to Aston Villa on May 25.

> Googly wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 5:29 am secretzimbo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:26 pm A few more weeks and I’ll be back home thankfully. Miserable place, miserable people and miserable weather It's good to go there every so often. Stay there just long enough to be really grateful to come back to this shithole The traffic here sums up everything. They've decided at the 11th hour to dig up every major road and put in massive highways for the Sadcc summit, but only to the places where the delegations will be going. The other roads are now completely f***ed because people are trying to find detours. Those will never be repaired because they won't be seen. The presidents don't like Meikles hotel (5 star) so each one is getting a presidential villa built. They don't like the VIP section of the airport either. Vital to have that when you're basically walking thru and waving. It's days away and they're weeks from finishing if they work a 24 hour shift. They knew they were hosting a long time ago but I think the delays were due to squabbling over who and how the hundreds of millions would be liberated. We're already bankrupt but this makes it a lot worse. They're going to have to give away the other half of the country to the Chinese to pay for it. Those guys must wonder daily at the willingness of African leaders to hand over whole portions of their countries for trinkets. Those early explorers buying countries for glass beads and cloths hasn't changed It's a chaotic disaster and still not as poorly run as ZC. and still not as corrupt as America.

And our mess back home naturally spills over into South Africa. Embarrassing being a Zimbo over here

Googly wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:46 am

The sad fact is they can still point a finger at us when they've completely destroyed their country, they just don't know it yet. The mortal blow has been delivered. What they've done to Joburgh CBD is a snapshot of what's coming.

Current outcry is a girl of Nigerian descent contesting to be Miss SA (Born here by the way), made me think of good old Naqvi and how there is no street protests along 1st street over his citizenship. 😂

Googly wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:50 am

CholeZimbo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:08 am

Googly wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:46 am

The sad fact is they can still point a finger at us when they've completely destroyed their country, they just don't know it yet. The mortal blow has been delivered. What they've done to Joburgh CBD is a snapshot of what's coming.

Current outcry is a girl of Nigerian descent contesting to be Miss SA (Born here by the way), made me think of good old Naqvi and how there is no street protests along 1st street over his citizenship. 😂

It's weird that our "official" path to citizenship is about the most onerous there is. It's tougher to get into Zimbabwe (unless you border jump) than it is to get into a First World country. Our borders are porous though. I think it's always been tough to get citizenship here. When Rhodesia was first colonised in numbers by the British it was not easy to get in here. To get to Australia you basically had to steal a loaf of bread for free passage, but they only let people in here from UK that had a trade or a skill or a degree. That's a fact, but I'm not sure why that was the case.

The SA border was more porous though. It's essentially why this country developed so quickly and such good infrastructures were laid down in next to no time. Miraculous really, they literally built a working country in about 30 years. Those same folk of course were the first to leave when hostilities commenced, but we have a lot to thank them for.

If you look at the geological maps they created they're accurate to within meters and it was done by tape measure and compass and i guess a sextant and accurate timepiece. It's mystifying.

I had a mate renew a wildlife concession, the original beacons, cemented in place 80 years ago were accurate to within 1m when the surveyor renewed the concession (20 000 ha) and I mean it's in serious hostile hilly lion and elephant country. Nobody knows how they did it, truth be told.

Those dudes are spinning in their graves at the mess that's been created. 😂 Anyways, still my home and I wouldn't be anywhere else. Aluta.

😂 The only thing Smith was not accurate about in his prediction of the bleak future that lay ahead was the extent of the rot, oh and how in every 10 year cycle everyone in the country becomes a billionaire :D 😂

https://cricket.af/post/acb-leadership- ... -sri-lanka

Possibly some A games with Afghanistan.

Sounds like the Afghanistan Cricket Board had a productive meeting. They'll get new tours and opportunities as long as they keep winning.