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Moneyweb, 15 February 2007
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//Unpacking the athletic genius that is J Arthur Brown.//


 * Julius Cobbett**

Erstwhile executive Fidentia Chairman J Arthur Brown is a remarkable fellow. A brief history of his life — delivered to Beachhead Media CEO Bruce Hetherington — left the PR man in no doubt that Brown was an athletic genius, a man capable of achieving anything he put his mind to, perhaps becoming the next James Bond, or even state president.

The eloquent Brown regaled an enchanted Hetherington about how he was personally responsible for implementing the IT system at Sun International’s Wild Coast casino. He also claimed that had he not suffered an injury, it would likely be him playing on the national rugby team that won the World Cup in 1995.

Put in the context of Fidentia’s current curatorship, sane people would take Brown’s claims with several large doses of salt.

Nevertheless, Moneyweb thought it might be enlightening to put his claims to the test. Speaking on the Moneyweb Power Hour Thursday night, the architect of Sun International’s sophisticated IT system told us that he was unaware of any contribution Brown might have made. “He was not involved in any of the mainstream software that ran the casino,” said Fallick, “He might have been involved in a system counting cups of tea in the backyard or something.”

Brown also claimed that he was a flyhalf on the University of Port Elizabeth’s (UPE) first rugby team, while Hennie le Roux (who played on the victorious national team in ’95) had the same position on the second team.

Kolie Brandt, UPE rugby manager, a man with an impressive memory of rugby history told Moneyweb that he had to rack his brains to remember Brown, the famous sportsman. After digging through archives, he eventually discovered that Brown made an unremarkable contribution to the university’s second and third rugby teams.


 * From: http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page1655?oid=71342&sn=Detail**

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