Walter Wallace
November 12, 2019 — Walter Wallace, a Pensacola, Florida resident and an avid golfer with membership in the Par Four Golf Club. Walter traveled with African American Golfer’s Digest along with 33 others on an international golf excursion to Cape Town, South Africa (Oct. 30-Nov. 7) to discover and explore the wonders of this ‘Mother City”.
His first-ever trip to Africa, Walter enjoyed the fine dining, accommodations, scenic architecture, tours, and shopping that most American visitors expect. However, when he stumbled upon the opportunity to tour a local township, Walter could not fantom the squalor of its residents and the disenfranchised persons who lived in such conditions in this cosmopolitan metropolis.
Apartheid in South Africa was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and it existed in South Africa and Southwest Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. The current lack of quality housing and equal opportunities still evades many residents and, is very much still prevalent today, as Walter discovered, within the garbage-strewn dirt crossroads of a township, where thousands of black families have used splintered boards and metal sheets to construct airless hovels for lack of anywhere else to live.
Walter shares his eye-opening experience of his November 5, 2019 visit to a nearby Cape Town township with AAGD Publisher Debert Cook.
