A post-graduate student from Zimbabwe returned to Galloway last week as he prepared to complete a year’s study in Scotland.
Natsani Brandon Dube has finished exams for his masters degree in statistical ecology at the University of St Andrews and is about to begin his dissertation.
He stayed with Roland Chaplain and June Hay in Balmaclellan for a few days break and got the 5.30am bus to Edinburgh on Saturday.
The couple helped Natsani through a tortuous visa application process and welcomed him into their home last August before he started his masters course on the Fife campus.
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