Leaving Palmwag we had to stop to pass through a checkpoint where the Namibians try to ensure that animal infections do not pass from one area to another. At the side of the road was another group of craft stalls and beyond that a village of traditional dwellings.
The stallkeepers gesture and try to get you to come any buy and are very polite in comparison with the street traders who confront you at petrol stations and try to get you to buy their creations. Many of them are children who explain that they are not at school because they are ‘in business.’
When you look more closely, then you can see that these houses are fairly primitive in their construction. In the foreground of this:
is the frame of what will eventually look like this.
These are the traditional rural people whom the government want to be able to educate, but find that the traditions of the countryside communities die hard.
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