Why Nyerere called fairy love story of Botswana of President Seretse Khama and his White wife Ruth ‘one of the great love stories of the world’
And three governments – Britain, South Africa and Seretse’s own tribal council – mobilised to stop them. Seretse wrote to his uncle Tshekedi, the regent who had raised him since his father’s death, announcing his intention to marry Ruth. Tshekedi was horrified.
