Jerry Gabaake and Jake Swartland - Who Got the Wheels Turning

Of the two, I knew Jerry particularly well. He had arrived in Mochudi in perhaps 1962 to teach at the National School at a monthly salary of something like R6.00. He was also a key person in the Teachers' Union.

By the time that I started working in Gaborone in early 1968, he had become the Principal of the Camp School in Gaborone and then of the Lesedi Primary School.

 In what was then a very small town, Eleanor Gabaake stood out a mile because she was voluble, trenchant, instinctively combative and in addition, a Town Councillor. In contrast, Jerry was also forthright but was less in the limelight than Eleanor.

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