Most residents who have had their family members move to other places with the hope of getting jobs fear that their families will fall apart especially women. Manki Sejaki says that the father of her four children has gone to Tonota to look for any form of a job "because the government has killed our only means of livelihood". Since they started living together about nine years ago, they have never lived away from each other.
"He had to go to Tonota and Francistown and find some work so he can bring money home. He does not like it but there is nothing we can do. At least for me I hope to work in the lands once the crops are ready for weeding," she says. Sejaki says that even though she hopes to work in the fields, there is no monetary pay and she also fears that town girls might snatch her man."We get paid with old clothes, crops and other things but no money. It is better than nothing because I can get food and clothes for my children but my husband will have to find other ways of making money," she says.
