Children usually begin tending animals at the age of five or six. When the boys reach 18 or 19 they go to work for higher wages as miners in South Africa.
賴國的男孩多從五、六歲就開始放牛，到了十八、九歲，就到南非做礦工，因為他們在國內很難找到比礦工待遇更高的工作。