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At the end of 1975 some of the family moved to Swaziland for our father to take up a position at the University of Botswana and Swaziland. The role was once again about building capacity, with the aim of eventually being able to offer a full Physics degree within Swaziland.
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The vessel was built in 1948 at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast and named Pretoria Castle. She was sold on the 1st of January 1966 to the South African Marine Corporation (UK) Ltd, and entered service as the SA Oranje in Safmarine livery but retaining Union Castle crew. The renaming ceremony took place at Cape Town on the 2nd February 1966, and the unveiling was carried out by the wife of Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa and often regarded as the supreme architect of apartheid. After 187 sailings she landed at Kaohsuing on the 2nd November 1975 where she was broken up by Chin Tai Steel Enterprises.
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The Africa Christian Press was established in January 1964 as a new publisher aiming to provide Christian books relevant to the African situation. Our mother was involved in its founding, and worked with them for many years as editor and author [46]. She wrote several books published by the press, though for most of them we only have the titles, which include ‘Newtown families’ [235], ‘Letters to Gabriel’, ‘Temptations of a nurse’, ‘Mr Mee escapes’, ‘What is Christian marriage?’, and ‘Letters to a student’.
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Prior to independence in 1964, the colony known as Northern Rhodesia used British currency. By 1965 independent Zambia was using the Zambian pound, shilling and pence. The Currency Act of 1967 led to the introduction of the Zambian Kwacha comprising 100 ngwee in 1968. The Zambian pound circulated alongside the Kwacha at a fixed exchange rate until 1974.
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In a follow-up to his essay in 1963 Snow wrote “A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?” I have had the pleasure of working with many academics from the Humanities and have never had such an experience—indeed my experience is that we are all trying to understand a complex world using different perspectives, language, and tools.
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There are multiple accounts of these events and the impact they had. The work of Elsabé Brink et al. tries to explain the context and trace the story from the viewpoint of 25 live witnesses [37].
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