Namibian beef reaches lucrative markets, but lucrative for whom?
Gobabis, Aminuis, Epukiro, Otjinene and Otjombinde are theoretically by now supposed to be thriving towns and constituencies, as is indeed the entire Omaheke region.
Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Gobabis, Aminuis, Epukiro, Otjinene and Otjombinde are theoretically by now supposed to be thriving towns and constituencies, as is indeed the entire Omaheke region. For these constituencies are located in the Cattle Country, with Gobabis its capital. Very much so because Namibia is one of the exporters of prime beef, starting with Europe, specifically the Nordic countries like Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
A market that in terms of the export of beef has been characterised as lucrative. Not only this, but state of the region (SORA) after SORA we are reminded of the number of cattle sold per year in the Omaheke region. Many of them, and by no means an insignificant number, are from the region’s rural economic backyards in the said constituencies of Aminuis, Epukiro, Otjinene and Otjombinde.
But is there really anything to show for it in these constituencies, let alone the capital of Omaheke, Gobabis, given the celebrated lucrativeness of its meat industry, especially its lucrative foreign beef market? This is not an inopportune and/or irrelevant or far-fetched question. If anything, these constituencies and their hordes of villages are far from being mirrors of lucrativeness.