We ask for bread you give us stones!

Keaboka was accompanied by five others, being: Peto Sekgoma, who had spearheaded support for Seretse, Kobe Baitswe, the Headman of Seleka village who further represented Letswapong, Moutlwatsi Mpotokwane from Tonota who served as the Supervisor of Gammangwato schools, Mongwaketse Mathangwane, representing the North-East, and Gaothobogwe Leposo, the Headman of Mmadinare. The delegation was joined by Seretse's South African lawyer Percy Fraenkel.

In the face of colonial regime opposition, money for the trip had been raised from throughout the district. The trip was sanctioned at a kgotla meeting held in Serowe on March 28, 1952, where there had been overwhelming support for sending the delegation. The delegates were selected to be representatives of the various Gammangwato communities. The kgotla's determination to send the "ambassadors" had been fuelled by the news of the British Government's decision that Seretse and Ruth's exile should be made permanent.