Michael Joubert was the

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of a group of companies on the

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. Michael Joubert was a business entrepreneur of children's playground equipment and portable building units in South Africa. He built the Zozo hut business. Mr. Joubert's main company Zozo had become a generic name in

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and the phrase zozo huts had become integrated into the South African language system. The Jouberts gained public attention when Michael Joubert, as a romantic gesture, bought his wife one thousand long stemmed roses after the birth of their third son, Adam and the story became front page news. Joubert immigrated to

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with his family in 1989. Michael Joubert died of a stroke in 2002.''Take a Break Magazine, England'' I Love You...and You cover, pp. 4-

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