FITTING tribute was paid to Pick n Pay former chairperson, entrepreneur, innovator, business leader and social advocate Raymond Ackerman at a memorial service for his passing last week that was held at Clovelly Golf Course in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, yesterday morning.
It was held at the golf course that was founded by his father Gus, together with other business partners, in 1920, as Jewish people were not allowed at other golf courses in Cape Town at the time.
In 1976, at the behest of Ackerman, the government allowed the club to become the first non-segregated golf club in the country, allowing it finally to meet its founding principles of not debarring anybody on the basis of nationality and religion.
This reporter, who had interviewed Ackerman many times…