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Title:Cross-Border Trade: A Strategy for Climbing Out of Poverty in Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Author:Muzvidziwa, Victor N.ISNI
Year:1998
Periodical:Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622)
Volume:25
Issue:1
Pages:29-58
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Subjects:illicit trade
female-headed households
Labor and Employment
Economics and Trade
Women's Issues
economics
mass media
Economics, Commerce
trade
women
poverty
Mavingo (Zimbabwe)
External link:https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_338
Abstract:A number of female household heads in the high density suburbs of Masvingo in southern Zimbabwe have been able to break out of poverty through cross-border trading, mainly between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Although these women traders have received unsympathetic treatment by press and officials, they show themselves to be enterprising individuals and hold a positive view of their trade. This article, based on participant observation (1994-1995) in the Masvingo townships of Rujeko and Mucheke, describes the women and their trade. It looks at their strategies for making a good income out of cross-border trade, their markets on both sides of the border, and the constraints they have to deal with, particularly from officialdom. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.
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