Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 8 August 2015 | Page 17

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GOLF
Sustainable business practices in golf

In the early 1990’s and with the imminent
arrival of what is now the not so ‘new South
Africa’, several friends in Europe asked me
“are there going to be any issues for South
Africa in March 1994?”
“There will be no worries with the one man vote” I
replied “but one man, one car is a whole other story!”
A recent trip into the Sandton area of Johannesburg
took 40 minutes for me to drive from Hartbeespoort
to Fourways Mall and then a further 55 minutes to get
to the Bryanston Country Club. For those of you who
are not lucky enough to live in Gauteng, according my
gps, the distance from Hartbeespoort to Fourways is
42.7 kms and from there to Bryanston CC is 5.8 kms –
so I rest my case!
The reason that I am sharing this story is not so
much for the traffic commentary or to vindicate

my tenuous claims at future gazing, but ra ѡ