The teacher who never preached

FRANCISTOWN: His parents wanted him to become a preacher. But Mtshumayeli Donald Khupe became a teacher.

Because the words ‘teacher’ and ‘preacher’ rhyme in the English language, his parents must have taken some consolation that their only child had not completely defied them in the choice of a career. Besides, teaching is a form of preaching.

Khupe was born in 1927 in Plumtree, Matebeleland in present-day Zimbabwe to Mnyembane Khupe and his wife Busimbe.

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