Full face-lift or a complete revamp?

Well, come see for yourself: no longer will visitors to the FS Bar have to ‘sit up straight’, nervously staring at blank walls while waiting for that call into the dark recesses of ‘the advocate’s chambers’. And no longer will members have to desperately try to squeeze into the old tea room for functions and meetings.   No, you really won’t recognize our sparkling new reception areas where you can now while away your wait by indulging, from the depth of genuine leather, in the luxury of being, until that call, a true ‘arm-chair critic’ in the face of the modern art works adorning the sleekly colour-coded walls. Not to mention, even, our sunny, spacious glass-and-leather tea-cum-arbitration room with its folding glass divider, and enough space to house every member of this Bar, and then some.

Finally, on 2 September 2011the Bar and the Side Bar met for the long-awaited 4^th famous fifteen-yearly rugby match for the G.A. Fichardt floating trophy.  The Bloemfontein legal fraternity packed the Free State Rugby Stadium for the epic clash,  with   patrons to the Bar and Side Bar teams, consisting of 15 players and 8 reserves each, being former player-opponents Henry Viljoen S.C., now of the Cape Bar, and Bert Sorour of the Free State Rugby Union.