Tsetse Fly Control

Once I have read a book telling the story of a tsetse fly control official on the Angola border area.
What happenend is that the armoured combat group were ready to cross the border into Angola. Nearing the border the Tsetse Fly control official stopped the first vehicle and asked them to alight their vehicles so that he can spray the armoured vehicle.

To make a long story short - the official sprayed the whole armoured coloum.

My story of such a person is that I encountered such a person near our base at that time. He was responsible and he exercised his duties to perfection. Everytime I passed the control point I had to get out of the car and he sprayed the vehicle. He insisted very politely to do his work and there where no possibility of bribery and corruption.

Today thinking back on those days I realised that he was proud of his work and he displayed good discipline - in short he had a good attitude towards his work. He was always neat on his appearance wearing a tsetse fly control uniform. There were no supervisors etc only him but he was a person you could trust doing his work. It was in the early 1970's

Lastly I bought a sombrero type of hat from the roadstall vendor and up until today I remember that official due to this sombrero that I bought at the Tsetse Fly Control Post.

I understand why the Tsetse Fly official brought the armoured coloum to a standstill - they were people that insisted to do their work the right way as they were trained to do.