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The Community Centre in Mochudi in 1965 delivering food for one of its drought relief projects
The Community Centre in Mochudi in 1965 delivering food for one of its drought relief projects

There is probably still a great deal that is not generally known about this country’s modern history. So, this week, I am offering this particular photo in part response to Professor Seekings who remarked in a draft paper on drought relief in this country that the 1960s had been neglected by academic researchers.

Indeed it does seem remarkable that there has been so little interest in van Rensburg’s astonishing efforts in Serowe during that period and to a lesser extent in the achievements in Mochudi.

Professor Seekings, more or less, suggests that drought relief here has always been, without exception, government-run and directed. The exception in Mochudi may have been small scale in terms of the overall national need but in retrospect it was truly heroic.

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