Obakeng was diagnosed with a kidney ailment in 2003. He said he still has pangs of pain after the surgery. Obakeng still has a tube that will have to be removed at a South African hospital.

However, he told Mmegi that he has no problem relieving himself properly but had been given stern warnings against eating tomato, spinach and beef.

He could not help but laugh at the way things are different in Pakistan compared to Botswana.

He said there were scenarios when buses were so full that other passengers sat on the rooftop of the bus, while others clung precariously on its sides.

Obakeng's father, Bahemedi Kgosi, said that life is tough in Pakistan but there is availability of medical facilities. He said that there are hospitals with kidney banks.

"I was not afraid of the outcome of the operation as I was satisfied by the caliber of the doctors," Kgosi, Snr said.

While they waited for the transplant, Kgosi was accommodated in the hospital residence.

He said, initially, he stayed put in the hospital but had to venture out to buy food.

"For the first weeks we ate bread and fish," he said. He said the food was 'too chili'.

He said they had to buy bottled mineral water, as they got sick during the first days.

It was later, he said, that he found taxis into town. Probably, it was not the best idea to have traveled alone since, he said, he found himself being the victim of taxi trickeries.

Coming from a sparsely populated country, it was the number of people that surprised him more.

Kgosi, Snr said, with so much support from Batswana, this is what Vision 2016 is all about. He is hopeful that his son will go back to school next year.

"Perhaps he will join his mother in the United Kingdom," he said.