Millgate Cottage is a family run business with three generations living on the property.
The Temkin/Baker family came to the KwaZulu Midlands in 2001 when Millgate consisted of only two B&B
units and The Glass Studio. Over the years Millgate Cottage expanded in several directions.
Family members from Right to Left are:
Nigel Baker is likely to be the first person you will encounter and who will crop up throughout your stay. Nigel,
whose background is in retail, now manages The Mole and Pig, The Glass Studio and Millgate Cottage Natural
water.
Karen Baker, a book-keeper by profession, handles the administration of the various businesses and runs Mole
Hill Clothing.
Ben Temkin, better known as a financial journalist and biographer keeps his finger on the pulse of the various
activities that take place a Millgate Cottage. Between times he writes a column for Business Day.
Jean Temkin also writes for Business Day, and is the person whose voice is most often heard by would-be guests
at Millgate Cottage.
The two Baker youngsters, David and Jonathan earn their pocket money by helping out wherever necessary.
All for the Love of My
Family
All for the love of my family, I could
have lost it all.
But I didn't want to make that fall.
I have cried many a tear.
But it is not worth it, without my
family near.
The love of my family means more
to me, more than my own life.
Through all my struggles and strife.
I will do everything I can,
All for the Love of My Family.
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Ben Temkin
The Author of -
BUTHELEZI
A Biography
By Ben Temkin
For some four decades Mangosuthu Buthelezi has played a leading role in South African politics and is widely
credited for his part in maintaining political activism against apartheid in the 1970s when draconian legislation
had either sent the country’s opposition into exile or confinement in prison or under house arrest.
Exploiting his dual role as Premier of KwaZulu and traditional premier of the Zulu nation, he challenged the
white government to carry out its promise to provide equal treatment to all its peoples. The government’s
response was little more than a sequence of cosmetic changes to the political
structure that entrenched its power, chief among them being the creation of
so-called independent Bantustans with little or no hope of financial viability.
In the absence of black internal opposition, Buthelezi recreated Inkatha,
ostensibly as a cultural movement but in reality as a broad-based political
movement. As the movement grew, the African National Congress at first
threw its support behind it. This support was, however, withdrawn and turned
mainly to open hostility because Buthelezi refused to adopt violence as an
oppositional tactic.
This biography, sourced largely from extensive interviews with Buthelezi, as
well as access to his documents, tells how this enmity grew into a violent
confrontation in which thousands of lives were lost and which threatened to
tear South Africa apart, even on the eve of its first democratic elections in
1994. It tells how Buthelezi, seeking imprimatur from his Church for a ‘just
war’ against apartheid, was ignored and found himself in conflict with his
Archbishop. It tells of his desertion by close friends of many years and of his
continued vilification despite his proven commitment in government where he serves as a senior cabinet
minister.
It is also the story of a man’s faith and belief in spiritual values, a man committed to his clan, his nation and his
country.
Jean Temkin
The Author of -
More Charting for Profit
Investors may know all the financial figures, including statistics and ratios, about a company, but they won’t
know if it’s the right time to buy or sell a share unless they know that the market mood is right. That’s what
technical analysis if about – giving you the picture of good probability whether or not a share, a sector, and
index, or the market as a whole, is about to rise or fall.
Charting for Profit, published in 1996, quickly became the standard text on
technical analysis in South Africa. Its sequel More Charting for Profit soon
sold out, but rather than a reprint, as Jean Temkin had lots more to say on the
subject, she wrote Even More Charting for Profits which incorporates many
new features that have since been introduced by popular computing software
packages. For the experienced chartist or the novice, this book is invaluable,
revealing her personal secrets that made her weekly newsletter, Temkin &
Moon on Diagonal Street, the most sought-after stock market newsletter in
South Africa for more than a decade.
Jean Temkin trained and worked on both the London and the Johannesburg
Stock Exchanges. She was mainly responsible for popularising charting in the
press and later, with her husband Ben, founded Temkin & Moon on Diagonal
Street, which she continued to write and edit while abroad for several years in
The Isle of Man and the Netherlands. Her other occupation is art, using paint,
copper, glass and latterly fabric to produce patchwork quilts. Her paintings have
been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, Netherlands, Zimbabwe
and South Africa.
She co-authored the Federated Life Investment book and worked as a financial writer on the Citizen, The
Financial Mail and The Star and contributed to other publications here and abroad. She is currently a columnist
for Business Day.
Now Available
Jean Temkin
The Author of -
EVEN MORE CHARTING FOR PROFITS
Jean Temkin’s latest book is on the shelf’s as of September 2009
