The weekend saw Manchester United in Cape Town playing against Kaizer Chiefs. The noise, the colour; in fact, the whole atmosphere was wonderful. It just brought home to me what the struggle is and has always been about. It is about equal opportunity. The crowd was dressed equally in red and yellow. You could cheer for who you wanted. The fans were all colours and ages. Whoever wanted to be there and could afford to be there, was. It is that simple.
If the Zimbabwe politicians could only know this. We don't really want to fight, to go through another war, to be refugees, to lose everything we love. We only want to be able to do what makes us happy, attend international events, have internet access, and satellite TV. We want our children to go to good schools, get good educations and have access to the best medical treatment. We don't want to be left behind in the global movement. We want the world and we don't want to have to work harder than everyone else for it.
Perhaps it's time they started thinking of us again.
Back to the game. It was really great seeing Giggs, Scholes, Rooney and the others in person. All praise for the flattening of the world. Long may it continue.
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