Archive for July, 2009

Juliet Cullinan Standard Bank Wine Festival 2009 »

We have just returned form Johannesburg and exhibiting at the Juliet Cullinan Wine Show. Unlike most of the other shows where every man and his dog turns up and you get lost in the crush, Juliet’s show is clearly focused on the upper end of the market, and the venue at Wanderers club is ideal. [...]

From Hopelessness to Hope – the funeral service of Mandisi Ngcawuzele »

From the moment Mzoli phoned me last Thursday to ask me to speak at Mandisi’s funeral, I had butterflies in my stomach …and by the time I was in the church, I was having visions of three “S” scenarios – Stumbling on my way up to the podium, Stuttering through the whole process, or Seizing [...]