Pretoria: News – Reggae at the Bar by Molatelo Malowa
bar News Cup quarterfinal, a Currie Cup Under- always been Mark Lawrence, for the Pretoria 21 semi-final and in June 2013 he was reason that he established himself by voted National Referee of the Month. being a successful referee, a prospe- Thys Snyman ‘Progress is a process. It takes time. rous career and business man, and You run a marathon a step at a time, most importantly an efficacious write a novel a letter at a time, fall in family man.” 2014 Winter Blanket Project love a kiss at a time and become a ‘He will furthermore make his Members of the Pretoria Bar again gene- Test referee a match at a time. There debut in this year’s Currie Cup Pre- rously contributed towards the annual is no instant success in life. But as mier Division. “I always dreamt Winter Blanket Project. Almost 800 blan- long as the process is getting one about and worked towards adjudi- kets were donated by the Bar to four closer to the goal, it is progress.’ cating in this esteemed competition. charity organisations for distribution Knowing that the road to success is amongst homeless people in the city as These past eight months have been a always under construction, Mark well as to other needy charities in Pre- period of progress for Van Heerden. To Lawrence and I have worked since toria. start with, tidings of great joy came about 2012, in getting my performances to when he was promoted to South Africa’s the optimum level, always moving Elite Panel, one of the top ten referees in our goals and targets towards a greater Jaco van South Africa along with Craig Joubert, space in the galaxy of refereeing.” Heerden Jaco Peyper, Marius Jonker, Stuart Berry, ‘Jaco says he finds refereeing com- – an elite Jason Jaftha, Lesego Legoete, Christie du plementary to his legal activities – referee Preez, Rasta Rasivhenge and Marius van both concerned with the law in der Westhuizen.
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