Zimbabwe roiled by worst power cuts in three years
HARARE - Nelson Masaka heaves a hindquarter of beef on his shoulder from a truck and trudges inside his butchery shop, wondering out loud how he would survive Zimbabwe’s worst power cuts in three years.
With formal jobs scarce - unemployment is over 80% - the informal sector and small businesses are the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy, contributing 60% of the country’s $21 billion gross domestic product, according to the International Monetary Fund. Munyaradzi Makoni, a barber in Marondera, a town some 70 kms from the capital, said there were days he failed to work because of the blackouts so he and colleagues at his hairdressing salon planned to raise money to buy solar panels.
But in the residential areas and local business centres, where most of the informal traders and small businesses operate, they are causing grief for businesses from hair salons to shops.
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