Rastafarian priest Headley Samuel holds up a stem of pungent marijuana and reveals his recipe for bliss: "Fast, breakfast, drink aloe vera and smoke ganja." His routine, which he says takes him to "the highest spiritual realm", makes him a lawbreaker. But soon that may change.
"Legal input starts almost from the word go in most mergers and acquisitions these days," says Alan Keep, of Bowman Gilfillan. He managed the legal team from Bowman that represented Standard Bank in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China acquisition of 20% stock at the end of last year.
"It has always been a tradition of the Bar for more senior members to have an open-door approach to our junior members," says Advocates Group 21 Transformation chairperson Robbie Stockwell. "Our group has taken this tradition a step further by introducing … a system in terms of which we are able to mentor our junior members."
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will be headed up by a South African within the next four months. Imtiaz Patel, CEO of SuperSport, has been offered the position of CEO at the ICC and now it’s just a matter of negotiating terms before he takes over the reigns from current CEO Malcolm Speed in early July.
When University of Pretoria vice-chancellor Callie Pistorius visited a male residence a few years ago, he came across a wall adorned with pictures of Boer generals. ”I asked them: Where are the pictures of other South African heroes — like King Cetshwayo who beat the British at Isandlwana?” he told the Mail & Guardian.
When Scottsdene High School headmaster Karel Cupido was asked what he would do if tens of thousands of rand were donated to his school, he might have chosen computers or textbooks, but he opted for a borehole.
”He swore at me, took a gun out of his cubbyhole and pointed it at me, saying: ‘This is my farm and on my farm blacks are workers and I will show you who is the baas here.”’ This is the story of Kotane Lekota, who studied at the University of the Free State. The incident took place on campus two years ago.
After leaving the Union Buildings in 2009, President Thabo Mbeki is likely to continue his peace-building efforts in Africa through a foundation set up for the purpose. According to Smuts Ngonyama, Mbeki’s aide, the president is considering numerous options on how to spend his time after 2009.
The highest and oldest wall is that which separates ”us” from ”them”. This is described today as a great divide of religions or ”a clash of civilisations”, which are false concepts, propagated to provide ”the other” — a target for fear and hatred that justifies invasion and plunder, writes John Pilger.
Disgraced former cricket captain Hansie Cronje would never be inducted into South Africa’s sporting hall of fame, according to rugby legend Naas Botha. Botha said that Cronje would not be eligible because of the fact he was banned from cricket for life for match-fixing.