Boardroom Talk – RW Johnson: Africa’s Wagner-for-FFL blunder opened door for Jihadists

By Alec Hogg

My childhood hometown of Newcastle in Northern Natal was typical of the time. In those years before television arrived in South Africa, the highlight of any pre-teen's weekly entertainment was a packed Saturday afternoon matinée at The Plaza, the only movie house in a 100 km radius.

Those days, Hollywood's latest would only reach Johannesburg months after release. It took years to wind a slow path to The Plaza. So, the Saturday matinée was often decades old – including one of my favourites, the memorable 1939 classic, "Beau Geste," a tale of three derring-do English brothers who joined the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.

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