Last night was my graduation, and fun it was too to be back at Wits 11 years after my last graduation!  There was a lot of time I never thought I was going to get there and I can tell you one thing, its pretty hard when you work all day and night, to sustain anything else over two years.  Degree number 3 took its toll, but at least I have my Masters now!  Even an RAF Defendant attorney to witness it - Fareed Jassat - only 2 weeks after ripping apart a client of mine who made a poor impression on all of us once his real earnings came to light!

In any event, in the pic with me is my Mom just outside Wits Universities Central Block.  What I found noticeable is that when it came to the LLB graduation, white males are almost non-existent and the ladies, and the profession has a number of stunners joining it, seemed to walk away with all the distinctions.  I think one or two men got their degrees with dinstinction, but the vast majority of them went to ladies.  Certainly a very different situation comapred to the pics of the old days and at Counsel today I saw one of the black and white "Class of 1978" pics that really had a very different picture to today's!  The profession is transforming itself and exciting times lie ahead of us.  What a wonderful country we live in, and how different to our neighbour holding "elections" today!