Question: What was it like going to school in Zimbabwe? How is it different to in UK?

Ken Gibbs answered on 19 Mar 2012:

Please bear in mind that I went to primary school in Southern Rhodesia (now named Zimbabwe) between 1948 and 1952 at a time when apartheid was the accepted norm. This means that I went to an all white and all boys school. The education was probably not too different from what was the norm in Britain except that race was not the same determinant that it was in Rhodesia.

Because the school I attended was a rural school outside what is now Marondera, we had great freedom to walk and to climb in the granite outcrops, something not seen in the UK except, perhaps, in Wales. Health and safety were completely unknown and we often took considerable risks. Naturally, such an environment makes one independent, and I think we matured rather more quickly than equivalent children in the UK at that time.