Word: tshekedi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...
When they married the next year, Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, joined forces with an embarrassed Labor government in a Windsor-like sequence of events that ultimately stripped Seretse of his chieftainship and forced him into a six-year British exile. Much of the pressure from the Labor side was exerted by then Commonwealth Relations Secretary Patrick Gordon-Walker, who was twice beaten for Parliament within the last year, partly on the color issue...