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Previously indifferent, Rakhudu paints his farm red

Friday, February 13, 2015

Old school: Rakhudu says Valentine's Day was not a big deal yesteryear

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Decades ago, precisely when he was 14 years old, former Cabinet minister, Keletso Rakhudu had never heard of Valentine’s Day. All the way through to 18 – an age when many teens fall hopelessly in love with one crush or the other – the young Rakhudu says he never heard his mother, uncles, friends or girlfriends say a word about the Day.

It took the 58-year-old Serowe native to finish uniwersity and start working life to begin celebrating the lover’s day.

“There was no such thing, even when I was 19 at the University of Botswana,” he remembers.

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