Cape Town, W. Cape, SA – Miles O’Brien went to Progress College in Rondebosch and studied marketing at Cape Technikon. His first job was at Standard Bank in Plumstead for a short period of time, then onto the City Tramways for 10 years.Sportshoe was owned by Benny Stoltzman (who also owned Vogue Shoes) who had the agency for A ...more

This is my last contribution to this series of events. I have thoroughly enjoyed stepping back into the days when travelling to find new designs was real travel.My final contribution is to say that with all that happened there were a lot of positives also achieved. I managed to visit some international manufacturing facilit ...more

Dave, born in the UK, started at Dodo’s in Johannesburg in the late 1960s then moving to Edgars in Port Elizabeth as a buyer in 1973. Not long after he was offered the Jordan agency in the Eastern Cape which he grabbed with both hands and served the company very professionally for 40 years.In 1986, I was plucked from the buying o ...more

David Maisey, former Jordan Shoes Eastern Cape agent, died on 10 July, aged 80, in the UK, after a long illness. An obituary will follow in the July issue of S&V Footwear & Leather Goods, out on Friday.  ...more