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...