Mochudi is in the Kgatleng District, where novelist and campaigner
Naomi Mitchison was the adopted mother of Chief Linchwe II.
Mochudi, the ninth biggest town in Botswana, is the home of the
fictional Mma Ramotswe, of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
Mochudi is where Sandy Grant, escaping a desk job in a London
publishing house, arrived in 1963, three years before independence,
and before either Mitchison, from her journalism in the 1960s, or
Mma Ramotswe, in the millennial years, raised the profile of this
new country. In Mochudi he found a community in the midst of a
famine, one whose life-style had changed little during the previous
20 or 30 years and where the ox-drawn sledge and wagon were
commonly in use. He describes the beginnings of his forty-three
years working understanding with the young Chief Linchwe and the
oppressive weight of apartheid South Africa. When Independence came
in a rush, the government of the new Botswana was technically
bankrupt, and its very survival seemed in doubt. In its newly
created capital, Gaborone, Sandy worked to provide relief and to
foster local development initiatives and combat social injustice.
As a long-standing newspaper columnist, he comments on the country
as it emerged from poverty. His account describes elements of
tribal life, rain hills and rain making, the initiation of young
males and his conversion of an abandoned hilltop school into a
multi-faceted museum. As a hands-on participant, he describes with
a deft hand, his involvement with the democratic process, a range
of intriguing personalities and events, amusing, personal,
perplexing and disturbing.
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