Mark Vermuelen: arson, attempted suicide, cricket
10-Dec-2014
In the BBC, Zimbabwe's Mark Vermuelen talks about his incident-packed life: from the multiple times he has been injured by bouncers, to trying to meet Robert Mugabe and his attempts to burn down the Harare Sports Club pavilion.
He drove 11 hours to Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world, with suicide in mind. "I'd had enough. I went to sleep in the gorge which the water falls into, wanting to never come back."The problem was the extreme noise. I was basically sleeping where the water fell in. It was like trying to sleep in a Laundromat with 20 washing machines going off. I slept for about three seconds. "I was ready to end my life, but Victoria Falls is quite an awesome place. It uplifted me a bit."