Masire - A true African

Then, I was part of a group of young South African students on transit through the then so-called Bechuanaland Protectorate, intended to travel by road via the then South and North Rhodesia, to Tanganyika, from there to fly to England to study Economics at the very new University of Sussex.

However, the South Rhodesian Police arrested us for illegal entry into this then British territory and thus interrupted our journey.  This colonial Police Service had us locked up at Bulawayo Prison for a month, and secured a court decision that we should be deported back to South Africa, fortunately via Bechuanaland.