CHARMAIN NAIDOO: How the Guptas are giving Indians a bad name
'They, and those who are doing their bidding (there are a lot of Indian names in those emails) give Indians a bad name'
My dad was a handsome man; dark skinned, a sharp dresser with sharp facial features that lurked moodily under a shock of thick black hair. At 26, newly qualified as a teacher from Sastri College in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, my lovely dad cut a dashing figure on the streets of this tropical coastal town. From the pictures I have of him at this age, he preferred pin striped Oxford bags, worn jauntily with suspenders – the kind that split into two pieces of leather at the end and fastened to buttons inside the waist of the trousers.He wore two-toned brogues and double-breasted jackets with two parallel columns of shiny buttons. Occasionally, a little ostentatiously I’ve always thought, he attached a fob watch (sadly lost to me in a burglary in my first month in Johannesburg 35 years ago) on a chain to his waistcoat. I used to tease him that the only thing missing from this look was a monocle, which made him laugh. I loved my dad’s laugh. It was full throated and genuine, a guffaw with his...
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