Hamish Pillay was born in 1978 in
East London in the Eastern Cape
of South Africa. He studied at
Rhodes University before pursuing
a career as a marketing consultant,
specializing in events and talent
management. He worked for the
ICC 2003 Cricket World Cup, prior
to which he was employed by Justin
Nurse’s satirical, controversial
Laugh-It-Off Promotions. In
writing The Rainbow Has No Pink,
his first book, he seeks to publicize
some of the more bizarre aspects of
the former apartheid regime and highlight how “the reality is that
apartheid is not over”.
