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Covid-19 border closures hit Zimbabwe’s women traders hard - The past 18 months have been tough for women cross-border traders, who saw their income vanish when borders closed

, raising concerns among campaigners about the enduring psychosocial effects of the pandemic that go beyond the economic.A married mother of three, Hadebe worked as an informal cross-border trader and, with her business largely driven by stable foreign currency that guaranteed a steady income, she was the de facto breadwinner, while her husband worked as a commuter omnibus driver.

“I have applied for a restraining order for my husband because of emotional and physical abuse,” she said. Industry officials say it has been particularly tough for informal cross-border traders who earned a regular income, but saw their incomes disappear overnight after borders closed. Perhaps even more alarmingly, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions said it is pushing for the increase of the proportion of informal-sector workers covered under the Occupational Safety and Health Services from “This could, however, prove a daunting task: there are no projections from global health experts regarding the end of Covid-19 that would allow informal traders a full-time return to their work.

 

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That's the insensitiveness of the Zim people through their representatives aka Zim government to Zim women and that's if the latter didn't contribute to this by voting in this ZANU-PF gov. over and over again...

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