THE AUTHOR
In putting this book together I have borrowed considerably from other writers, reporters, aficionados and authors. When I have failed to fully recognise their considerable input, I beg their indulgence and apologise.
In instances where I have expressed my own opinion I make no apology and risk your contrary view and censure.
The place is real and the characters are based on local residents in the Village. To protect their innocence their names have been changed. Also the businesses in the Village are real but some have had their trade names altered to avoid litigation. I am sometimes a customer but never a food critic.
If you have any interest in the Chartwell Venture Fund concept the author may be contacted at bryanbritton@vodamail.co.za
I hope that readers will forgive the shallow story line. It is the factual economic drama unfolding in South Africa which has centre stage and is the real story line.
My hope is twofold. If in reading this diatribe you decide to visit South Africa and/or Umhlanga Rocks I would be highly delighted and secondly if you gain a better understanding of ‘paradise lost’ then my last gasp would have been well worth it.
Bryan Britton is a retired former financial executive and venture capitalist whose other books include ‘Stepping Stones’. ‘A Bridge Too Far’ and ‘Umhlanga Rocks’. All books are available from free-ebooks at https://www.free-ebooks.net
Nevertheless, nearly 20 years later the contrast between law, justice and morality continues in a new form. For, as Advocate Bizos noted:
“We South Africans stand at a crossroad. The one road, lined with securocrats, the plundering of the public purse and the attack on our democratic institutions, if taken, will create imbalance where law and justice cannot be reconciled with morality as our institutions and the very laws themselves will be perceived to be illegitimate. The other road is harder to follow, it requires all of us to work together with a common purpose to do our job, and to ensure that we bind ourselves to our just laws and act against those who break them.
It is the youth who must work to build our country and ensure that morality can be reconciled with law and justice”.