Robert Oakeshott 1933-2011 (2) Champion of Employee Ownership and Workers Cooperatives

Pursuing an invitation, he visited Swaneng, and asked if he could work there. He joined the staff as a teacher, planner, and author of a textbook in Development Studies, an attempt to explain economics from the point of view of aspiring third-world readers.

In mid-1967 he became the first manager of the Serowe Farmer’s Brigade. A year later he was appointed the founding principal of Shashe River School. Although he was popular locally, he was soon in conflict with the Botswana Ministry of Education.