My Life in Botswana, and Observation of the Society from 1971 to 2005
Derek Hudson*
I obtained a PhD in Statistics from Imperial College, London, in 1963. After working at CERN in Geneva and at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States for some years, it gradually became apparent that my wife and my four elderly parents in South Africa were becoming frail and in need of
assistance. I applied to the United Nations for any statistical job in Botswana, Lesotho or Swaziland.
By extraordinary coincidence, the newly arrived expert British statistician in Gaborone found that his son was severely allergic to Kalahari dust. He suddenly had to give up the post of Botswana’s government statistician and hurriedly returned to England. This created a totally unexpected vacancy in Gaborone. I was extremely lucky to be appointed to this vacancy. I took up the post of Government
Statistician at the Central Statistics Offi ce (CSO) in Gaborone in February 1971.
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