Place at the bar for ghosts of magnates

01 October 2015 - 02:17
By Shaun Smillie

Back in the 1980s the longest bar in Africa was a crowded place. Stockbrokers, suits from the mining houses and sales reps jostled for standing room at the main bar in the Rand Club, Johannesburg, and it was Aaron Biyela's job to keep lunch-time patrons supplied with cold beer and gin and tonics.That was then.

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