On Friday I’m off to Abuja to organize an African Wine Festival. I’ve given up waiting for WOSA to wake up and realize that South Africa is the vineyard for the continent, so I shall have to do everything myself. Then its back to Cape Town to feed Yvonne and Glendah and then off to the en primeur tastings in Bordeaux. An ABC of travel.

I’ve already shipped a bunch of wine samples to Nigeria and will be carrying the Blaauwklippen gin kindly supplied by Rolf Zeitvogel. Let’s see if a little self motivation can achieve something WOSA’s many millions have not. For as President Zuma to President Buhari last week “African solutions to African problems.” But of course neither President drinks alcohol.