It is unlikely that Tresia Hamutenya would have had the courage to wake up early morning to be at her village’s central point by 06h00. But on 9 August 2022, she decided to make the long queue to participate in her first Devil’s Claw harvest with other women harvesters from around her village, Katope, about 10 kilimetres from Mpungu, in the Kavango West region of Namibia.
Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )
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