My ordeal at the hands of Western Khama - Zvayi

That was around 8am; 12 hours later everything had changed. I was, instead, staring at the dark green walls of a stinking prison cell at Tshesebe Police Station, just 50km shy of Plumtree Border Post, awaiting deportation from Botswana to Zimbabwe.

My crime? I had been placed on EU sanctions list and the president of a sovereign African country, Rtd Lt-Gen Seretse Khama Ian Khama of Botswana, had seen it fit to act on EU sanctions even though Botswana is in Southern Africa, a 12-hour flight from the closest EU state, by today's fast jets.