Authors: Susan Williams
16.
Fraenkel to Rathcreedan, 24 June 1953, SUL (UK), Benn Levy Papers, 6/9.
17.
Telephone message from MacKenzie at 10.30 a.m., 4 June 1953, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1338.
18.
Ketshabile to Whately, n.d. [June 1953], TNA:PRO, DO 35/4278.
19.
Bechuanaland Protectorate Police, Serowe, Consolidated Intelligence Report for Week ending 21.6.54, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1341.
20.
Winstanley,
Under Two Flags in Africa
, p. 52.
21.
Grievances of the members of the Bamangwato Tribe, n.d. [1954], TNA:PRO, DO 119/1342.
22.
Thomas V. Scrivenor to High Commissioner, 31 October 1955, TNA: PRO, DO 119/1344.
23.
Peto Sekgoma to Officer Commanding BP Police, 28 November 1955, ibid.
24.
Brockway to Dodds-Parker, 14 December 1955, ibid.
25.
Robinson to DC, Serowe, 3 January 1956, ibid.
26.
Notes by Scrivenor, 5 January 1956 and [illegible], 7 August 1956, ibid.
27.
Sekoko and Sebina to Hatch, n.d., LHASC, Hatch Papers.
28.
Hatch,
New from Africa
, p. 67.
29.
Daily Mail
, 27 September 1956.
30.
Hatch,
New from Africa
, p. 86.
31.
ibid., pp. 78â9.
32.
Manchester Guardian
, 11 July 1955.
33.
Die Transvaler
, 21 July 1955 (translation).
34.
Kavuma,
Crisis in Buganda 1953â55
, p. 102.
35.
Swinton to Lennox-Boyd, 17 September 1954, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4368.
36.
Quoted in Thorpe,
Alec Douglas-Home
, p. 301.
37.
Dickie,
The Uncommon Commoner
, p. 112.
38.
Discussion between Secretary of State and the Labour Party Delegation, 9 August 1955, TNA:PRO, CAB 21/3167.
39.
Redfern,
Ruth and Seretse
, pp. 214â15.
40.
Manchester Guardian
, 14 October 1955.
41.
Star
, 13 October 1955.
42.
Home to Eden, 29 November 1955, TNA:PRO, PREM 11/1182.
43.
ibid.
44.
Eden to Home, 29 November 1955, ibid.
45.
Walker,
Women and Resistance in South Africa
, p. 168.
46.
Stewart,
Lilian Ngoyi
, pp. 21â2.
47.
Helen Joseph to Ruth Khama, 29 October 1956, WCLUW, FSAW.
48.
The World
, 18 February 1956.
1.
Tshekedi to Creech Jones, 22 November 1955, KIII, TKP 58.
2.
Hansard
, 14 June 1956.
3.
John Hatch, âMinerals, Economic Development and the High Commission Territories', June 1956, BLCAS, Mss Brit Emp s 332, Box 19.
4.
Instructions to Counsel, S. J. Markowitz, by Kgosi Mokgosi, 22 September 1953, KIII, TKP 58.
5.
Annual Report: Ngwato District 1954, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1342.
6.
Hansard
, 14 June 1956.
7.
Tshekedi to Astor, 29 March 1956, KIII, TKP 58.
8.
Page to Noble, 5 June 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4297.
9.
Sharp,
Bechuanaland
.
10.
Hansard
, 1 August 1956.
11.
ibid.
12.
Fowler to Laithwaite, 14 August 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4300.
13.
Muriel Sanderson to author, 17 November 2004.
14.
Seretse and Tshekedi to Home, 15 August 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4300.
15.
Home to Liesching, 15 August 1956, ibid.
16.
Mandela,
Long Walk to Freedom
, pp. 222â3.
17.
Huddleston to
Observer
, 13 September 1953.
18.
Mandela,
Nelson Mandela Speeches 1990
, p. 71.
19.
Quintin Whyte to L. M. Thompson, 3 December 1954, LHASC, Hatch Papers.
20.
Lewin to Hatch, 12 November 1954, ibid.
21.
Hansard
, 13 April 1954.
22.
Mandela,
Nelson Mandela Speeches 1990
, p. 71.
23.
Address by Strijdom, 25 June 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4239.
24.
Home to HCO, 26 June 1956, ibid.
25.
On 21 August, 28 August, 6 September and 7 September 1956.
26.
Liesching to Home, 18 August 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4300.
27.
Home to Eden, 7 September 1956, TNA:PRO, PREM 11/1182.
28.
Eden to Home, 7 September 1956, ibid.
29.
Garner to Laithwaite, 13 September 1956, British Library, OIOC, MSS Eur/F 138/160.
30.
Home to Liesching, 14 September 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4300.
31.
Liesching to Home, 24 August 1956, ibid.
32.
Today
, 12 March 1960.
33.
Press release, 26 September 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4301.
34.
The Times
, 27 September 1956.
35.
Thorpe,
Alec Douglas-Home
, p. 19.
36.
Afro-American
, October 1956.
37.
Rand Daily Mail
27 September 1956.
38.
Daily Telegraph
, 27 September 1956.
39.
Telegram from Secretary of State, London, to High Commissioner, Cape Town, 8 March 1954, TNA:PRO, DO 119/1340.
40.
Naledi Khama to author, 13 November 2004.
41.
Daily Mail
, 10 October 1956.
42.
ibid.
43.
Pathe Gazette, âPeople in the News â Seretse Khama Returns to His Country', n.d. [October 1956].
44.
Liesching to Home, 10 September 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4300.
45.
Wedgwood Benn to
Observer
, 7 October 1956.
46.
Winstanley,
Under Two Flags in Africa
, p. 74.
47.
Announcement by Resident Commissioner, 26 September 1956, NAC, 10283-B-40.
48.
CRO to HCO, 18 September 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4301.
49.
Manchester Guardian
, 27 September 1956.
50.
Rand Daily Mail
27 September 1956.
51.
Die Transvaler
, 27 September 1956.
52.
Under-Secretary for External Affairs to Secretary for External Affairs, 9 December 1955, CAN:CER, vol. 22â737, DEA/12354â40.
53.
Rhodesia Herald
, 28 September 1956.
54.
Wray to CRO, 13 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
55.
Rand Daily Mail
, 27 September 1956.
1.
Life
, 19 November 1956.
2.
Today
, 12 March 1960.
3.
See picture in
Life
, 19 November 1956.
4.
Daily Mail
, 3 October 1956.
5.
Life
, 19 November 1956;
Rand Daily Mail
, 11 October 1956.
6.
The Times
, 11 October 1956; Wray to CRO, 13 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
7.
Bulawayo Chronicle
, 11 October 1956.
8.
Rand Daily Mail
, 11 October 1956; Wray to CRO, 11 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
9.
Wray to CRO, 13 October 1956, ibid.
10.
Star
, 15 October 1956.
11.
Sunday Times
, [Sunday, 14] October 1956.
12.
Wray to CRO, 12 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
13.
Winstanley,
Under Two Flags in Africa
, p. 75.
14.
Bulawayo Chronicle
, 12 October 1956.
15.
Wray to CRO, 13 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
16.
Life
, vol. 41, 19 November 1956.
17.
Ebony
, May, 1966.
18.
HCO to CRO, 18 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
19.
Allison to Fawcus, 19 October 1956, ibid.
20.
HCO to CRO, 18 October 1956, ibid.
21.
Scotsman
, 19 October 1956.
22.
Allison to Fawcus, 19 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
23.
HCO to CRO, 18 October 1956, ibid.
24.
Johannesburg
Star
, 18 October 1956.
25.
HCO to CRO, 18 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304; Johannesburg
Star
, 18 October 1956.
26.
Allison to Fawcus, 19 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
27.
Reuters, 19 October 1956, ibid.
28.
Allison to Fawcus, 19 October 1956, ibid.
29.
Reuters, 19 October 1956, ibid.
30.
Allison to Fawcus, 19 October 1956, ibid.
31.
HCO to CRO, 18 October 1956, ibid.
32.
Allison to Fawcus, 19 October 1956, ibid.
33.
Seretse to Hatch, 8 February 1957, LHASC, Hatch Papers.
34.
Johannesburg
Star
, 5 November 1956.
35.
Wray to CRO, 1 November 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
36.
ibid.
37.
Winstanley,
Under Two Flags in Africa
, p. 76.
38.
Wray to CRO, 1 November 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
39.
Daily Mail
, 3 October 1956.
40.
Daily Mirror
, 10 October 1952.
41.
Daily Mail
, 3 October 1956.
42.
Sykes to Redman, 15 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4304.
43.
Sykes to High Commissioner, 23 October 1956, ibid.
44.
Sykes to Emery, 19 October 1956, ibid.
45.
Sykes to High Commissioner, 25 October 1956, ibid.
46.
Lennox-Boyd to Mrs Khama, 14 October 1956; Lennox-Boyd to Home, 10 October 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4301.
47.
Minute by Emery, 9 November 1956, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4303.
48.
Rand Daily Mail
, 1 November 1956;
Rhodesia Herald
, 1 November 1956.
49.
Daily Telegraph
, 2 November 1956.
50.
Johannesburg
Star
, 3 November 1956.
51.
Daily Telegraph
, 2 November 1956.
52.
Helen Joseph to Ruth Khama, 29 October 1956, WCLUW, FSAW
53.
Johannesburg
Star
, 3 November 1956.
54.
Daily Herald
, 2 May 1957.
1.
Star
, 10 July 1957.
2.
Winstanley,
Under Two Flags in Africa
, pp. 77â8; Extract, Tergos No. 2, February 1957, TNA:PRO, DO 35/4306.
3.
Daily Mail
, 15 July 1957;
Daily Herald
, 2 May 1957.
4.
Daily Herald
, 2 May 1957.
5.
See TNA:PRO, DO/4306, 7175, 7308.
6.
Quoted in Robins,
White Queen
, p. 56.
7.
ibid.
8.
Daily Mail
, 15 July 1957.
9.
Bessie Head to Randolphe Vigne, 10 February 1967, in
A Gesture of Belonging
, p. 49.
10.
Pathe Gazette, âPeople in the News â Seretse Khama Returns to His Country,' n.d. [October 1956].
11.
Hatch to Seretse, 4 March 1957, LHASC, Hatch Papers.
12.
This chapter has drawn heavily on Dubbeld,
Seretse Khama
, chapters 5â7, and on Gabatshwane,
Seretse Khama and Botswana
, ch. 2.
13.
Benson,
Tshekedi Khama
, pp. 302â5.
14.
Dickie,
The Uncommon Commoner
, p. 111.
15.
Fawcus and Tilbury,
Botswana
, pp. 55â6.
16.
Joint Advisory Council 7th session, April 1958, 87, quoted in J. Ramsay, âTwentieth-Century Antecedents of Decolonising Nationalism in Botswana', in Edge and Lekorwe,
Botswana
, p. 103.
17.
Hatch,
A History of Postwar Africa
, p. 234.
18.
Time
, 30 June 1961.
19.
Fawcus and Tilbury,
Botswana
, p. 78.
20.
Bechuanaland Government, âAgreement to suspend application of Race Relations Legislation', press statement, 19 March 1964, LHASC, Bech: Gen Correspondence and Documents 1956â67.
21.
American Consulate Mbabane to Secretary of State Washington, 21 November 1964, NARA, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy Files [1964â66], Box 1912, File: Pol. 19 Bech.
22.
Fawcus and Tilbury,
Botswana
, pp. 90â91.
23.
Seretse Khama to Tony Benn, 8 April 1963; Benn to Seretse, 26 April 1963, LHASC, Bech: Gen Correspondence and Documents 1956â67.
24.
Report by Bartlett and Williams to Secretary of State, 21 August 1961, NARA, Rg 59. Records of G. Mennen Williams, Box 22, File: Basutoland Trip, August 1961.
25.
Lord Harlech to Gordon Walker, 16 November 1964, TNA:PRO, DO 216/34.
26.
Quoted in Hatch,
Africa â the Rebirth of Self-rule
, p. 56.
27.
The Times
, 8 July 1978.
28.
See Darwin,
The End of the British Empire
, p. 20.
29.
The Times
, 27 January 1960.
30.
Quoted in Fisher,
Harold Macmillan
, p. 236.
31.
Horne,
Macmillan 1957â86
, pp. 194â5; Fisher,
Harold Macmillan
, p. 237.
32.
Bechuanaland Protectorate, Central Intelligence Committee, 1965, TNA: PRO, CO 1048/461.