At the heart of a new restaurant in Rosebank is the same sort of energy and commitment that we have seen from mining moguls down the years, writes Justice Malala Jacob Zuma must have thought he had died and got on the express train to heaven when the Guptas came into his life. In his former life he received pocket change from Schabir Shaik, who slipped him something at least 783 times in payments as small as R10 (for a car wash — don’t scoff, this was the 1990s).Then the Guptas came along and, in their own words, made Zuma’s son a billionaire. And they allegedly offered deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas a whopping R600m cash bribe. You have to love these guys. They are ambitious. If you are paying bribes of R600m you must expect your take in the tens of billions. Imagine if it were focused on the positive and the legal.Well, every so often a really ambitious, positive project comes along and you sit there and think: "Wow!"The new David Higgs restaurant, Marble, in Rosebank, is s...
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