SOTS Tackles Roles Of Women

Onnetse Makhumalo speaking at Son of the Soil workshop PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Onnetse Makhumalo speaking at Son of the Soil workshop PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

With this year’s Son of The soil event-celebrating women, organisers of the event Bana Ba Mmala recently hosted a workshop to tackle the roles of women in areas such leadership, traditional weddings and culture.

Held at University of Botswana Library Auditorium, one of the topics of the day was the role of women in Ovambanderu culture. Attendees seemed to have keen interest in the presentation.

The key speaker, Mbasuviwa Katjarava who was cultured and raised in the settlement of Ovambanderu in Ngamiland said women are the pillars of Ovambanderu culture. She said Ovambanderu people are one of the minority tribes that originate in Namibia and majority of them settled in Ngamiland. “We are pastoral farmers and we believe that a cow is a holy and valuable animal to Ovambanderu culture,” she said.

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