20 Questions We Ask Everyone
This week it’s Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee’s turn to answers our questions.
Too many. Of late, Charles Abrahams ‘Class Action’ – a story of a Cape Town lawyer who was part of most major class action lawsuits. A delight. To understand state capture, I have returned to Misha Glenny’s ‘McMafia’ time and again in the past decade.
Beach.
Interviewing Nelson Mandela or fighting off nine (or so) gag attempts in court.
Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Reed Hastings (Netflix boss).
The Gini coefficient. It explains everything.
More an aspiration than talent – I want to be a really supple yogi.
Branko (Daily Maverick editor-in-chief).
I fractured my foot on a picnic.
Nelson Mandela (all time) and Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed (presently).
Jacob Zuma (for the past decade) . He ruined our country. Also Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohamed Bin Salman who is getting away with chopping up journalist Jamal Kashoggi and grilling his remains in a tandoori oven.
Definitely prawns.
Annoyed a fascist politician – I am so happy to live in a country which outlawed capital punishment.
Woolworths sales assistant.
Facebook and Twitter; and high data costs (in SA).
Not a quote, but an essay called “How much land does a man need?” by Leo Tolstoy – it is a reflection on how much is enough by way of accumulation.
My dream house with yoga shala, big windows and a long pool.
Nothing. I even pay my e-tolls.