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To Patrick Matimba, the whole episode was proof that in multiracial Southern Rhodesia there is "very little hope that mutual tolerance and understanding will ever prevail. When the news got out that I had been banned from the European hospital, a European youth grabbed me by the tie in a fit of rage and nearly throttled me. He thought it was a crime that I should want to be beside my wife when she was "ill."