Of the Okavango Delta, its people and the merciless predators

The people of the swamps who are mainly from the Hambukushu, Dceriku, Wayeyi and Bugakhwe merafe (nations) entirely depend on it to supply them with everything from food to materials that they use for different purposes. In fact, the poorest of the poor living in the area cannot survive without the picturesque delta, which has been described as 'the last Eden' and they know no life apart from it.

About 10km outside, Shakawe, one of the biggest villages in the Okavango area, there is a small village called Samochima. One of the residents of the fishing camp is a young man called Poloko Samkuchi. At the tender age of 18, Samkuchi is not bothered about school because he believes that he has learnt enough from his forebearers to survive on his fishing skills. The brave young man knows that beneath the water lurks some of the most dangerous creatures as the crocodile and the hippopotamus but he is undaunted.