Botswana: Choice and Opportunity :: Mmegi Online

This is a fascinating look into a period of history that is yet to be properly documented. Written with a fresh observer’s eye, it reads more like a historical novel than a standard memoir. Full of rich anecdotes, astute observations and wonderful personal touches, it is also both disturbing and poignant.

The ingredients which made Sandy Grant’s unconventional career are obvious, a feel for history and local history in particular, a regard for historic buildings, an enjoyment of teaching and education, a concern for others and a rare affection for Mochudi, as it used to be. Grant adds authenticity and value to his account by using at-the-time correspondence

The beginning came at the end of 1963 with his arrival in Mochudi from the UK to set up a combined community centre and refugee transit centre at the behest of Martin Ennals, later to be a notable secretary general of Amnesty International. The arrival proved to be the start of a 45-year working partnership with Mochudi’s young Kgosi Linchwe II.

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