Gudu is the hope BPP gave to the umbrella

He was not the only one to recognise this. When he graduated from Standard Seven he was tasked with the responsibility of being a class valedictorian. His teachers had confidence that he could do it and he did it with aplomb.

Asked who Richard Gudu is, the man who in Setswana would be described as ‘a person with a flamboyant aversion to morning dew’ because of his lanky physique, points to that day in 1970, when he stood before the class to woo his peers with his oratorical skills.