Mzoo Spot

 I have always held a view, jokingly, that everyone has his/her covid-19 wave. Meaning if you have not contracted covid-19 in one wave, chances are that the next one might be waiting for you. After being careful all this time, covid-19 came knocking. We had felt comfortable after a year of homeschooling that our son can go to school even if it's twice a week, to get a chance to interact with his schoolmates. We felt he probably missed them. Indeed he really enjoyed his few days at school. Unfortunately, when a covid-19 case was recorded in his school, we feared he might be affected. Our fears were indeed justified because a few days later he had a mild, but dry cough. We swiftly took him for a test, and it came out positive. By this time we were feeling healthy with no signs. A few days later, I felt some mild flu signs: muscle pain at the back in the main. The test came out positive. 

I didn’t get a chance to go to school with Joe, because he was a few years younger than me. At the same time, I left Port Alfred to do my high school education in PE, and so we never really crossed paths during this time. I got to know him a little bit closer in the year 2000. By this time I had come back to Port Alfred after finishing my junior degree in PE. Indeed I spent the whole of 2000 in Port Alfred devoting most of my time to coaching football players. He was with Black Aces. In early 2001 I left Port Alfred for Cape Town at the insistence and invitation of the recently departed Mxolisi Payi.  We reconnected with Joe again much later, possibly around 2007/8, this time in Johannesburg. Both of us had started our working careers. I must say when we met again, he was already well established, a married man with a house and car. We met mostly for soccer matches. I remember initially, I lived in the Pretoria CBD, and because I didn’t have a car, I learnt for the first time how t...