The Judge has Spoken and said:

Edwafin has been granted a provisional order of liquidation.

Whilst shopping I received a phone call from our friends in Pietermaritzburg and was informed of the judge's decision. Mr. Geyser of GDLK Attorneys also sent the fax below and requested to have it published here. Please read it carefully and direct all questions to GDLK Attorneys or perhaps via your own attorney.

I want to thank Soraya Parker for keeping me informed and appreciate her and her firm's work in this matter.

My heart goes out to all that were desperately hoping of some way out but remember the universe always looks after its own. At least the months of desperate waiting and tension is now somewhat over: now we have to wait to see the bow of the ship slowly sink below the waves.

Patrick Stapleton. In your own words: "It's all over. Finish and Klaar"

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Short-Thumb Syndrome

Today I was going to take it easy. I thought that after a long weekend, news would be scares and I could therefore devote my time on some philosophical issues. One that especially attracted my attention is the "I Told You SO" and the "Shall We Ever Learn" phenomenon. Both are creations in one's own reality and as such are part of the archetypes that we surround ourselves with. But, because of a bit more exciting news, that will have to stand over until a bit later - perhaps tomorrow.

There are two interesting phenomena that needs to be mentioned here. The one is the short-arm syndrome. That kind affliction you encounter with institutions such as the DTI, CIPRO, NCC, NPA, etc . Most of these have been somewhere in the chronicles of this blog, and we won't spend a huge amount of time on this topic. Suffice it to say, that the Short-Arm syndrome is found in places where there are people with certain functions, but because they have sat with folded arms for such a long time, their arms have grown shorter and shorter - if you don't use it then you lose it, some would utter. As a result they are unable to even reach for a phone or pick up a pencil. Science believes that this is part of our evolution (similar to the process of the disappearing little toe, or redundant wisdom teeth), and that given enough time such individuals will gradually melt away like candy floss in one's mouth. Wouldn't that save us some tax payer's money!

More seriously is today's main issue: the syndrome of the fast - shrinking thumbs. This is mainly caused by excessive thumb sucking. Not only can this cause a putrid smell, but one's thumb becomes smaller and smaller. Eventually one only has stinking thumbless hands left.
It appears that at a certain Durban company, this has become pandemic, and that many officials and working staff no longer have any thumbs left to speak of, and are now beginning to lick at their other fingers - the scourge of the Thumb-Suckers (where is Stephen King now).

Yesterday we accounted the incident at a recent meeting with Edwafin and stakeholders, in which the brave Don Hutchinson announced that the law suite by Mrs Griffin "is being successfully defended and already put to bed." My dear friend, Patrick Stapleton, added that the lady had been negotiated with to get her to withdraw her application. What people didn't notice was that both Don and Patrick were surreptitiously putting their thumbs in their mouths to give it a suck or two. Now, one of my good friends that I gained through this writing, sent me an interesting email this morning. Remember, the attorneys firm, GDLK, that I spoke about yesterday? - well the email is self explanatory, and it seems that we as investors rank rather low on the list:

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Contraditions?

Gmail only allows one to have 10 emails on a list and to which updates of the blog are sent directly. Today I had to removed the email address of CIPRO/DTI from the blog's list as I am now convinced they no longer exist. I have tried to phone them, write to them and send telepathic messages to them - nothing; everything disappears into the ether - they are now part of a totally different reality.
Instead I added a new address to the list: that of Geyser, Du Toit, Louw & Kitching Inc. I sense that there is an event in the making here. Let me thank all those who responded to my request by sending me a copy of the letter dispatched by the above mentioned attorneys.

Let us start at the beginning.
This blog has mentioned, with some disgust, the disdainful manner in which Patrick Stapleton reacted towards Griffen's lawsuite against Edwafin. Keep in mind that the contemptious attitude he displays against her, he shows to us all. Some of us have personal experience of this.
Nevertheless, we were all waiting with abated breath for 17 April, when the matter would be before court again. Then around the beginning of April a letter from Edwafin containing the minutes of a public meeting stated, Don (in an arrogant tone of voice) pooh-poohed the legal action taken by a certain Mrs:

"... He confirmed that this action is being successfully defended and already put to bed."

The lawyer who asked the originally asked the question was not satisfied and contradicted Don's arrogant, presumptuousness with:

"...An application has been made for provisional liquidation and has been set down for arguments on April 17th. It does not mean that it has been successfully defended."

Realizing that Don's magic was shortcoming, Patrick, with his own brand of flashiness, intervened:

"Patrick clarified that the previous evening the company's attorney had met with the creditor in order to negotiate a withdrawal of the application and the attorney is amenable to us doing it."
"Don apologized for using the wrong legal terminology."

Don, Don, Don, - how embarrassing! You have still so much to learn from the master!

Hang on one minute, though! Now we have a letter circulating from a company called GDLK Attorneys, (dated 3/4/2009) and they are asking people to nominate them to take care of the liquidation of Edwafin. I never received the letter personally (secretly I feel affronted), but various readers forwarded me a copy last week. The letter basically sets out what we know already, and thought was no longer going to happen: Mrs Griffen's court case, and then states as point 4:

"The purpose of this letter is, in the first instance, to inform you that the writer will be prepared to accept an appointment [as one of the liquidators]. Further, that if the order is granted, the writer will be prepared to undertake an enquiry into the reasons for the company's demise and in particular to determine whether any person is responsible to compensate the company for any potential losses which either it or its creditors mey have suffered."

Confused? Yes, me too. Don and Patrick are convinced that Mrs Griffen has been won over, yet here we have an attorney who wants to do the liquidation, and if you want them to do it, you may respond kindly in a variety of ways.

So, on Thursday I phoned GDLK Attorneys to try and find out what was happening, but the writer, of the letter AJL Geyser was away for the weekend already. Instead I spoke to a lady, who's name I can't remember and who was as eager to speak to me as a melted, hot, chocolate Easter egg. I naively informed her who I was, and that I might also be interested in any action they were going to undertake against Edwafin. I also informed her that I had learnt of various travel plans, and I'm afraid that that killed the last little flame of affection between me and the nice lady. Nevertheless, I kept my friendly disposition, and asked her to clarify how it was possible for them to offer the liquidation of a company, when Mrs Griffen had been convinced to withdraw her case.

(Now, readers will know that I am already easily baffled by the mysteries that life presents while we silently orbit our sun, which in turn orbits the Milkyway of our galaxy.) And here, this sweet little lady complicates it all by telling me that the two have nothing to do with each other - point No 1, 2 and 3 on the letter from GDLK attorneys, dated 3/4/2009, have nothing to do with point No 4. Obviously, it makes sense in a way. There are probably other Mrs Griffins (me included) who would pursue a legal case against Edwafin, and when it comes to selecting liquidators, we have already been nominated. Neat!

Oops, that rat I though I noticed, was an Easter bunny, after all.