{"id":84,"date":"2016-03-29T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/llb66\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T10:52:20","slug":"bill-daly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/llb66\/2016\/03\/29\/bill-daly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Daly"},"content":{"rendered":"

After graduating and toying with the idea of becoming a prosecutor in Rhodesia (there was lots of good and cheap big game hunting and fishing there) sanity prevailed and I joined Dyason Douglas Muller and Meyer (now Dyasons) in Pretoria to do my articles at the princely salary of R120 per month. I joined up with some contemporaries from Maties including Poen Hoffman, Ghoempie Albertyn and Mitt Bredell. We lived together in a house in Muckleneuck (rather a posh suburb) and euphemistically named the place \u201cMaidens Hope.\u201c The house became known for its very good parties and the good looking guys living there!!,or so we thought.<\/p>\n

After a fortunate run on the Stock Exchange whilst still a clerk I had enough money to travel overseas as soon as I had completed my articles. A friend of mine and I bought a camper van in London and off we went to explore. I had enough money not to have to work for a year and to have work interfere with my intensive studies of strip shows, belly dancing and beer festivals.<\/p>\n

On my return I joined George Pretorius at Cliffe Dekker and Todd in Johannesburg. I had just got to like Johannesburg when I was offered a job by a firm in Durban. I was originally from KZN\u00a0 and had some farming interests there so the offer was attractive.<\/p>\n

Shortly after I arrived in Durban I married Anita Cronje, whom I had met on a blind date in Pretoria during my Maidens Hope days. We have lived in Durban since then and have been fortunate to have 2 girls and a boy. I am proud to say that all three of them are Graduates of Stellenbosch University. Only my eldest daughter followed in my footsteps and did law.<\/p>\n

I was a partner in De Villiers and Strauss until Johan Strauss and I broke away in 1984\u00a0 to start our own firm known as Strauss Daly. This firm has grown tremendously and now has offices throughout the country.<\/p>\n

In 2001 I resigned as the chairman of Strauss Daly and the set up a legal call centre primarily to collect debt on behalf of the Big 4 Banks and the retailers. When I sold my interest 3 years ago and retired we were 2 Attorneys and nearly 500 call centre agents.<\/p>\n

I have been very involved in game farming, hunting and fishing having hunted big game and fished in South Africa and in the neighbouring states as also in Britain and USA. I have also been the president of both the amateur and professional hunting bodies.<\/p>\n

I currently live on a golf estate near Ballito. My time is spent on serving as a non-executive director of a listed Company and a Bank and travelling extensively in Africa and Europe and USA and spending some time at our beach cottage at St Francis Bay. My four granddaughters\u00a0 also demand and get a lot of my attention.<\/p>\n

It is hard to believe that we left University 50 years ago. I am so looking forward to seeing all my class mates again<\/p>\n

Bill Daly<\/p>\n

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