A 36-year-old Charity Waya of Nkolokosa Township in Blantyre is a frustrated lady. She is seeing her long time ambition of improving self- economic livelihood through cross-border trade, shrinking quickly.
Waya, used to import raw material from Zimbabwe to sell back home. She recalls, the profit she used to make from the business of selling school uniform cloth was enough to support her family.
But this has not been the case since the year 2022. She is no longer able to get foreign exchange especially United States Dollars and South African Rand, to keep the ball running, therefore, she closed the business.





















