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Larry Simply Larry tells the story of Fr Larry McDonnell an inspiring Irish Salesian Priest and the Headmaster of Salesian High School in Manzini Swaziland For more than two decades Larry was instrumental in the growth and development of hundreds of Swazi boys as well as many from South Africa Namibia and Zimbabwe who sought refuge in Swaziland during the apartheid era Many of the boys whose lives he touched directly and indirectly are now prominent policy political and business leaders in South Africa and the region He also played a crucial though largely unsung role in the liberation of South Africa Salesian was also an academic refuge for many South African Namibian and Zimbabwean teachers At various times the school harboured operatives of uMkhonto we Sizwe MK Swapo and the PAC such as Stanley Mabizela and General Keith Mokoape of MK a most recent Luthuli Awardee in Silver both ANC Arthur Pickering of Swapo as well as Rosette RB Nziba and Dini Sobukwe of PAC respectively The key period in this account is from 1970 when Larry arrived at the School to the mid1990s following his tenure as Headmaster and his retirement to technical education As a deeply religious person caught up in struggle politics while trying to give the boys in his care the best possible start in life Larrys roots in the Irish struggle for liberation from British rule and in the trauma of the 19thcentury Potato Crisis gave him an acute consciousness of South Africas liberation process See more https//wwwamazoncom/dp/0796101345