Patrick van Rensburg

Once again BH 's volatile and emotional temperament made her less than successful as a teacher, but over the long term this proved a blessing in disguise since it had the effect of steering her...

As an outsider in Serowe she had made unexpected new friends who were outsiders too: Patrick van Rensburg , a white South African former diplomat, who had chosen the independent future of Botswana as his...

She also became an instructor in gardening for Patrick van Rensburg 's educational project.

Patrick van Rensburg published in his young newspaper venture, Mmegi wa Dikgang, the first of three articles by BH : Collecting Oral History, which pays tribute to the ordinary people who had offered...

BH built Serowe around research and interviews, on individuals or historical figures. She centred it on Khama III (ruler of the Bamangwato people over fifty years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ally of the...