'I’ve seen people without food, crying,' said KZN Subsistence Fishing Forum chair Riaz Khan, 'If the virus doesn’t kill them, then hunger will.'
‘I’ve seen people without food, crying,’ said KZN Subsistence Fishing Forum chair Riaz Khan, ‘If the virus doesn’t kill them, then hunger will.’
“I put my two children through school and kept them fed without anyone else’s help,” the proud 56-year-old said yesterday. Many other sectors were able to resume their operations – albeit to a limited degree – when the lockdown moved from level 5 to 4 this month and commercial fishing was currently permitted, but Ebrahim felt government was ignoring subsistence fishers.Riaz Khan, the chair of the KwaZulu-Natal Subsistence Fishing Forum, said yesterday that subsistence fishing was a tradition in many families and had allowed generations of men and women to “live their lives without asking for handouts”.
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