We bring to you a new timely story from Fungai Rufaro Machirori, a Zimbabwean creative with a passion for the written word and photography. She is the Founder and Managing Editor of Her Zimbabwe (online at www.herzimbabwe.co.zw) , a platform to amplify Zimbabwean women’s voices online.
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Leading story. June 27 2014.
After 16 days of non-stop exhilarating football, it is the first rest day of the 2014 World Cup taking place in Brazil. Teams that have entered the Round of 16 will be continuing the battle for the world’s most prestigious sporting accolade from tomorrow as the tournament builds to its climax on July 13th.
I wish I could forget that it is today, like the news has forgotten. To reopen my book and read, use words as bridges to other worlds, and not those that have been destroyed, those that are lost.
But some things cannot be unlived.
