Hello and welcome to this interview of the Lotus Itas. I'm your host Stelios and I'm very pleased to be

interviewing today Mr. Rob Hersov. Hi Stelios, happy to be here. I just flew in from South Africa.

It's so nice of you to be here with us and I'm really interested in interviewing you. And South

Africa is something, is a country about which I'm learning new things every day.

And I think it's going to be a very educational experience for me.

I hope so.

But also, we have some concerning news every now and then.

So it seems like some things are in that well, are in going well there.

Things are not well, as Shakespeare would say, in the state of Denmark.

Things are not well in South Africa at all.

In fact, it's reached a point where things have to crack.

Things have to break for us to actually fix the situation.

I suppose my first question is, what was growing up in South Africa

like? Okay, so I was born in 1960, in Johannesburg, to a loving mom and dad and a very wealthy

family. So I was the lucky sperm club. That's one way'm pretty good. I was born into great wealth in

Johannesburg in the most beautiful country in the world and it really is the most beautiful

country in the world and into a world that was unusual because we had a the national

government, a white government, that instituted policy called

apartheid.

And everyone's heard the word apartheid, but no one knows what it actually means.

Apartate means separateness.

And the concept of apartheid was separate development.

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