Livelihoods, gender entrepreneurship and empowerment: Zimbabwean women informal cross border traders and Sadc regional integration

Abstract

Every day thousands of Zimbabwean small entrepreneurs travel across borders in the SADC region in search of markets for their products. In the case of the Mozambique and South African borders, Peberdy (2000) and Peberdy and Crush (2001) observed that the majority of these travellers are women. This is the situation depicted at the various border-crossing points in Zimbabwe and within the SADC region.