Northerners take advantage of flood bounties

Northerners take advantage of flood bounties

At 07h00 in the morning on the banks of a water stream on the shore of Onkani village in the Omusati region, a noise brings everything to a standstill. The road users driving past bring their vehicles to a complete halt to buy fish. Almost a 100 people, the majority of them women, wade into the oshanas, some shoulder-deep in the water. They are harvesting a slimy, thumb-sized fish known as catfish. The fish is collected here, and sold to the loc…