Whitey by Niel Joubert (Tafelberg, R330)
Whitey Basson, 'the Shoprite King', as Joubert's dubs him in his subtitle, has long held the fate of farmers in his hands by choosing produce lines and keenly predicting consumer trends.
Joubert's authorised biography tracks the bright and precocious from a Porterville, Western Cape, wine farm who took on South Africa's retail
