Roadside Tomatoes and Bananas

This is where I buy tomatoes, bananas and onions. Today, the bananas were very small, so they were only 50cents each (which is about 5p). The tomatoes are N$5.00, which is about 50p. They are much more expensive in the supermarket.

Young children stay with their families and so this little boy has to wait here all day. When people move about, the younger children are carried on their mum's back. They are fastened securely with a 'sitenge' (see-teng-ay) which is are useful piece of cloth used for many purposes. For example: it is worn as a skirt wrapped over your normal clothes, for carrying children on your back, for putting over your head to shield it from the hot sun or to sit on if the ground is dusty.