He was a National member of the Parliament of South Africa, and a vocal critic of the party's apartheid system.
[2] Dr. Jan S Marais was born in the Karoo, in the town of Fraserburgh, Northern Cape, South Africa.
Within months he reorganized the farm and spend his time reading detective stories and had only one dream, to become a train driver!
A senior played a joke on him by inviting him to a statistic class where they were writing a test to Marais's surprise.
He did his master's degree on Successful People and later with his return to South Africa, started the TrustBank that changed banking worldwide.
The change in his bank's approach towards their clients stemmed from the time that he saw Mary Poppins as a little boy.
One of his claims to fame from those days was that all female workers got hair and clothing allowance and were encouraged to wear mini dresses.
[2] He resided in Seapoint during the early TrustBank days and later in Cape Town city center.