Interracial marriages are not easy, one cannot even begin to imagine how it was in the 40’s not to forget if it affects someone in line of becoming a chief. The extraordinary love story of our late first president Sir Seretse Khama and his English wife Ruth Williams endured despite all the obstacles and outrage. Now it is being told for the first time on the big screen with British stars David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike portraying the pair.
Seretse was the Oxford-educated student prince from the then Bechuanaland who in 1948, at 27, married Ruth a 24-year-old clerk with a Lloyd’s underwriter. A union was fiercely opposed by her father and Seretse’s family. He was chief in waiting of the Bamangwato tribe and had been sent to London by his uncle Tshekedi Khama to study law, after which he was to return home and marry a woman from his tribe.
The British government and the uncle ended up joining forces to demand that Seretse give up his white wife, or quit his tribal lands and leave his homeland. Seretse’s uncle Chief Tshekedi insisted that the Colonial Office prevent the marriage. A parson who was meant to marry the pair was told in no uncertain terms he should not officiate at the wedding. The couple married secretly at a register office instead.
The couple had a daughter and three sons, one of whom, Ian, is now president of Botswana. Seretse died in his wife’s arms aged 59 in 1980. Ruth died aged 78 in 2002. This film has all the attributes, major actors, important director, explosive and compelling story of a movie that will attract audiences and, just as importantly, Oscar voters. It is due to be released late this year.
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