1975 : All white Rhodesian males were required to serve their country through a year’s National conscript. Because I had joined Customs and Excise straight after school, I was exempt for a number of years but the draft eventually caught up with me and in 1975 I ended up in the Rhodesian Territorial Army. After 3 months initial training we were deployed as a unit and it was during this 9 month period that I had 2 narrow escapes. The first was on the way to Base camp. Travellin

Rhodesia - Late 70's : Working for the then Rhodesian Customs and Excise, at one stage I was based in Salisbury (Harare) where my duties centred around Salisbury Airport. It was before I had a car of my own and so I used Customs transport to get to the airport some 10 miles from the City. On most occasions there would be others who needed to get there and back so I would drive. Travelling back to Harare one evening I knew there was a car in front of me as I could see his veh

Rhodesia - late 50's : When I was very young God was trying to move in my life and I recall being invited to Sunday School by an older friend. I went just the once, coming away feeling a bit confused about the story of Jonah and the whale. I had never heard it before and later I learned it was a story from the Bible – all I understood at the time was Christmas and Easter. I didn’t own a Bible at that age and at Christmas I used to wonder at the significance of the birth of b