Born in 1947, on a farm in the White Highlands of Kenya, Roger attended school in Bournemouth, UK, and St David’s College in South Africa. He started on the mines near Johannesburg when he was nineteen years old. He has worked on gold, platinum and copper mines all over the world. Roger married in 1968 and is the father of four children by his first wife, Sharon. She died of cancer in 1993. He has since remarried and lives with his wife, Cynthia and their young son Gordon, on a forty-foot boat near St Ives in Cambridgeshire.
The South Africa of the early nineties and especially the mining industry was known for its deep-seated racism. But for people working in the depths of those mines, there was a strong bond of respect and care. The truth of this is evident in the interactions described in this book. Told by a man who...