The Bolton Road Collection has only been going for four weeks, so it certainly cannot be the Saxonwold Shebeen, writes Justice Malala I am so sorry. I have failed you, and failed you dismally. I have for a week now tried to locate the mythical Saxonwold Shebeen. And I have failed. I know that many of our eager readers have been standing at the steps of our offices in Rosebank, demanding that Rob Rose, editor of this august journal, come out and address them about the whereabouts of this infamous eatery and whether I have located it and reviewed it. I fear I have been Jacob Zuma at my job — I have failed.Last week I went looking for the shebeen made famous by the man who nearly became our finance minister, Brian Molefe. You will know by now that our Molefe is the man who, according to the former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, made 44 calls to the capo of the Gupta family, Ajay, at a time when Eskom was doing a deal with one of the family businesses.After Madonsela revealed that c...

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