The Unfair Way

The narrative of this book is to reverse this poor history of black golfers. This is done by not only reflecting on the political, social and economic aspects among non-whites, and blacks in particular, mostly in the country’s labour reserves known as townships, but also by depicting the joy and pain of those who doggedly struggled against all odds to emerge as professional golfers.

Some of the players whose golf career stories are related in the book, such as Norman Mashaba, Vincent Tshabalala will be readily recognisable to some readers. The stories shared are about people who many have never heard of and a select few who were able to permeate the barriers put in place to prevent them from prospering. While they are individual stories and are all interviewed and share commonality in experience to show that the struggle to fight against the injustice was collective even though golf is an individual sport.