Johannesburg

3 July 1954

My dear Pat,

Sorry I couldn't send this earlier: as soon as I arrived home I was seized by almost incurable laziness. I feel triumphant about having got over it.

The deaf and dumb post isn't going so well because the Dept. insist on having someone with a social work diploma, my experience with the deaf and dumb notwithstanding. Still, I am looking around for something: as long as it will be something permanent, more or less. This shifting about I've been doing for the last 2 years must come to a stop. But I can't think of coming back to Basutoland without my family, which is out of the question at present.

I hope you will find this satisfactory (the translation). If I may say so, I find it a little on the ‘intellectual’ side, Still, perhaps it is as it should be, being an introductory number. My impulsive reaction tells me the man-in-the-street wouldn't care tuppence whether or not the Liberals won or lost in the provincial council elections: the Liberals couldn't be that important!

Best regards to you and the family, especially to Mrs Duncan

Yours sincerely,

Ezeke

Johannesburg

5 August 1954

Dear Pat

I received a long letter from Sir Allen1, replying to mine. He accepts almost the whole scheme as I have explained. He thinks however that it would be best for me

I think myself it would be an admirable basis to work on. I have two worries: where to hire such a van and the procuring of a commercial licence, although I don't know if the latter is really indispensable – what do you think about these two points?