 In 1965 the former Cyrene headmaster, Ned Paterson, hired Sambo as an art instructor at Nyarutsetso school in Salisbury.Unfortunately, the marriage between the old-fashioned missionary and the fast-living Sambo proved short-lived.Sambo, hanging out at Job Kekana's art school in Rusape, began painting male and female nudes using the live models that were hired there.