When his father died, Richard Ramotoana Mokgomme was barely five.
As is so often the case in extended families, it was left to the maternal side of his family to raise the child.
“I never went to a crèche,” he recalls, “which I now think of as a blessing in disguise.”
When other children trudged off to school, he was bundled outside to play, mostly on his own.
His playground was