CHAIRPERSON
The last visit began in December 1977.   We arrived in Durban on Boxing Day and we were looking forward to a whole two weeks with our father.   There was nothing unusual about this trip, except that Durban had one of the wettest summers on record, and halfway through our stay my father's wife, Fowzia, had to make a trip to Botswana.  My sister, Jan, and I were quite keen to go with her.  Our cousin, Patrick, lived in Gabarone, and we would have loved to have seen him.   And on top of that, I had never travelled outside of South Africa before.