Robert Oakeshott 1933-2011 (2) Champion of Employee Ownership and Workers Cooperatives
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Pursuing an invitation, he visited Swaneng, and asked if he could work there. He joined the staff as a teacher, planner, and author of a textbook in Development Studies, an attempt to explain economics from the point of view of aspiring third-world readers.
In mid-1967 he became the first manager of the Serowe Farmer’s Brigade. A year later he was appointed the founding principal of Shashe River School. Although he was popular locally, he was soon in conflict with the Botswana Ministry of Education.
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