Your People will be My People

Ruth Williams was a middle-class Londoner who loved ballroom dancing and ice skating when she met Seretse Khama. He was chief designate of the most powerful tribe in Bechuanaland, today Botswana, on the borders of apartheid South Africa. Their union sparked outrage, fear and anger. Ruth’s father barred her from their family home, she was hounded by the global media and shunned by white people in Seretse’s village of Serowe. The couple was humiliated, tricked and eventually exiled to England. But, despite all these tribulations, their love triumphed over the politics and prejudice of the time. This is the story Ruth Khama ‒ the story of an extraordinary woman, who had the courage of her convictions in marrying the man she loved and accepting his country and people as her own. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sue Grant-Marshall has written two best-selling books, Mind the Gap and Mind over Money, and is been an award-winning journalist. She was born and raised in Botswana and lives with her husband Don Marshall and their daughter Amy in Johannesburg. MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES – The compelling film UNITED KINGDOM - a love story of a middle-class white Englishwoman and an African chief-in-waiting in the late 1940s, of Ruth and Seretse Khama. New angle: other books have focussed on the relationship of the Khamas, this book concentrates on Ruth Khama herself. READERS PROFILE: Lovers of biographies of extraordinary people and those interested in the history of Botswana and racism both then and now. PRAISE: “Sue Grant-Marshall delivers an invaluable history lesson with aplomb. But it is also a ballad for romantics and a remarkable triumph of enduring love. Your eyes and heart are in for a sublime treat.” – Redi Tlhabi “Celebrating a romance that set the British government on a collision course against the Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland – told with compassion, but with a total lack of sentimentality…” – Fred Khumalo