Leading Edge: Why SA could drive us to drink

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Harare

IT had all become too much for a bloke sat of an evening this week at the bar that offers generous views of matches played at Harare Sports Club.

He had turned his back on the field, and by the look of him as he leaned on the counter – backside firmly on barstool – he had done so hours before.

His head was down, defeated. His shoulders sagged with resignation. He was motionless. He had, in fact, passed out. Goneski. Sleeping the sleep of the spectacularly sloshed...