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here. It’s just not allowed.”
It later transpired that it was after all not our fault that we had missed the Maputo flight but that of Zambia Airways. So a Zambia Airways representative at the airport was approached and he arranged for our accommodation at George Hotel in the town centre. This was to be at the airline’s expense.
We were told that there would be two flights to Maputo the following day, one at 09:00 hours and the other at 11:00 hours. By sheer coincidence, booked
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The son explained to us: “We have never been to this part of the world before. All we knew was that according to our tickets, Gaborone was to be our last stop.
So when the plane landed at Gaborone Airport, we took it for granted that this was Harare and so we remained on board with other passengers bound for Manzini. It was only after we had got off the plane at Manzini that we realised we had overshot our destination.”
Unlike us, the duo had paid for their own accommodation at the hotel. At 09:00 hours the following day, we were aboard a tiny seven-seater Royal Swazi Airlines plane bound for Maputo, arriving at our destination 35 minutes later.
There were only seven of us on the plane – four whites, including the pilot, and three blacks.