Sid Going meets his cousin

Press, 8 July 1976, Page 42

Sid Going meets his cousin

From T. P. McLEAN Cape Town It was a coming together of Goings when at Port Elizabeth the other day the All Black half-back, Sid Going, met for the first time his cousin, Phil Going, a middle-aged man who after years in the Colonial Service in various parts of Africa is now on the maintenance staff of Rhodes University at Grahamstown. The meeting was arranged at the request of Sid Going's father. “We are a widely

separated family group,” Phil Going said. “Our grandfather had several sons who settled in such parts of the world as Australia, New Zealand, and even the Falkland Islands. Sid’s father and I have kept in touch, and it was a great pleasure for me to receive the request to look up Sid.” During his time in the Colonial Service, Mr Phil Going worked in such places as the British protectorates of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and Basutoland (now Lesotho). “One of Africa’s great troubles,” he said, “is that everyone is power crazy — he wants to be either Prime Minister or Cabinet Minister. Consequently, few consider the necessity of establishing the infrastructure of a new country.” “But the best Africans were verv able, Mr Going said. In Botswana, for example, Sir Seretse Khama was doing “an outstanding job.”