Zimbabwe: Zim's Informal Workers Bear the Brunt of COVID-19 Lockdown

For over a month, the usually buzzing Mbudzi roundabout area, south west of Harare has been calm and deserted as Zimbabwe enters week six of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.

According to Tekla Gavi, a mother of four who survives on selling second hand clothes in this informal economic hub, it has been the longest six weeks of her adult life, being stuck at home with no income.

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