Hamish Hoosen Pillay

Hamish Hoosen Pillay was born in 1978 in East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University and has pursued 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 was 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”. (read less)

Hamish Hoosen Pillay was born in 1978 in East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University and has pursued 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 was no Pink, his first book, he seeks to publicize some of the more bizarre aspects of the former apartheid... (read more)