Author name: Mike Garden

HI All I drove down to Gweru late last week to see a few of Softrite’ s payroll clients – I left early, so I arrived mid-morning leaving plenty of time to travel the extra 80km south to the Jabulani Safari camp a short distance east of Shangani. Jabulani Safaris is set amongst granite kopjes […]

HI All Way back in 1927 an Englishman, resident in Bulawayo, called Arthur Newton set the world record for 100 miles by running from Gweru to Bulawayo in 14:43 hours. He was already 44 years old and had won his second Comrades Marathon in 1924 with a time of 6.48 plus the largest ever winning

HI All This country has always had a strong contingent of (mostly older) folks playing lawn bowls and 40 years ago we had over 20 different bowling clubs in Harare alone. Once a year there would be a Nationals Bowls tournament with several hundred of the more competitive types converging on one or other of the

Hi All Once a year, for the past 15 years, Debbie Jeans along with the Cancer Association and Triathlon Zimbabwe put together an extremely well organised Triathlon to raise awareness and funds for Breast Cancer (Pink). The latest one was held yesterday at the Mount Pleasant Swimming pool and this year they decided to combine

Hi All January is always a very busy month for us at Softrite, and this year was no different with us adding an option to our Adaski payroll software to use Zimra’s Averaging method for calculating PAYE. So, I felt quite justified in jumping on an Emirates plane heading off to see my kids and grandchildren in

Hi All Two of the most important essentials for increasing participation in any social sport are to have sensible, dedicated committee members along with healthy sponsorship from a local supporting company. Electrosales is one such company sponsoring an annual two-day Mountain Biking event at the start of November each year. This last weekend there were

Hi All Some people are born organisers. They, typically, meet up with fellow competitors after an event and chat about possibilities in their discipline. One such group has linked up recently to form Zimbabwe Masters Swimming. Last Saturday morning they put together a well organised international event at the Harare International School with teams coming

Hi All Contrary to widely held views amongst the non-bowling public, the game of lawn bowls requires a lot of skill and practice before one can seriously challenge the best in the game. I consider myself one of those competitive types who play to win at any sport, always humbly accepting defeat when beaten (Often!)

Hi All The best time of the year to visit any of our National Parks Game Reserves is during the couple of months before the annual November rains arrive. At this time of the year the wildlife returns to the more prolific waterholes and the vegetation starts to thin out, making for easier visibility. Having