Bobby Jordan is a middle-age white guy born during the reign of BJ Vorster. Since then he has lived under eight state Presidents, but only ever liked one of them. Although distantly related to Apartheid Prime Minister DF Malan, he never went to the army and never voted Nat.

His first real job was in journalism, interviewing politicians in the build-up to the first democratic elections in 1994. He is still doing exactly the same thing twenty years later for the Sunday Times newspaper.
In between he writes short stories and hangs out with his family.

The highlight of his career was meeting the painter Pieter van der Westhuizen, who died in 2008.

The highlight of his life was introducing his daughter, Leela to the Octopus Pool near Cape Infanta.