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CHAPTER 6 - MY FIRST TRIP TO THE UK – (ENGLISH VERSION OF DISCRIMINATION)
During one of the lunches, a General Manager asked me about apartheid and how I managed to survive in that environment. I explained to him that I found more segregation in London than I found in South Africa and went on to say that in South Africa we all use the same dining facility and all use the same toilet and repeated what I had said earlier about what happened when I arrived at Head Office. Anyway, it did not go down too well, nor did my approach to the menu.
On that day, which happened to be a Friday, they offered fish cakes and salads and I told them I did not eat salads but did they have any chips? The Chief Executive nodded his head and I had some chips. The person that had taken me there was a General Manager and said well I don’t think you will be invited again but strange as it may seem, I was invited again. In fact the Chief Executive sponsored a company cricket tour from South Africa to the UK.
This cricket tour took place in 1976 during our apartheid years and so we had to filter players through to London one by one and we brought along some of the local blacks to play in the cricket team. We called the team the Temple Bar Cricket team which was the name of L&G’s head office building. After one successful match, the Captain of the opposite side said he was very pleased to see that we had brought a mixed team out here and somebody at the back of the hall shouted “yes but they are carrying the bags”.
On that trip I scored 101 runs at an average of 14.4 and was never given out LBW. I also took 7 wickets at an average of 34 runs per wicket.
When I was seconded to the UK I was provided with an apartment in Fleet Street which is near St Paul’s and I used to walk to Bank underground station, where the L&G Head Office was. I walked because I was not all that confident about where I would end up if I tried to take a tube train. I did eventually started to master the tube. Back to the apartment, I was quite excited when I found that there was a TV even though TV then was in Black and White
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