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Title: | Cross-Border Trade: A Strategy for Climbing Out of Poverty in Masvingo, Zimbabwe |
Author: | Muzvidziwa, Victor N. |
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. |