g to the family's cattle and traditional farming activities. Educational opportunities were limited. He started attending a <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Missionary_Society" title="Finnish Missionary Society">Finnish missionary</a> school at <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okahao" title="Okahao">Okahao</a> when he was ten and completed Standard Six, which was as high as was possible for blacks during the time. In 1946, at age 17, he went to live in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walvis_Bay" ti