POLITICAL STABILITY MEANS ZIMBABWE’S TOBACCO SECTOR IS GROWING AGAIN
March 1st, 2010
BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE
AFTER being allocated a piece of land in the year 2000 as part of the country's controversial and often violent land reform, it has taken nearly a decade for small scale tobacco farmer Tendai Dambanjera to commercially justify the claim of what he says is his ancestral land.
For the first time this year, Dambanjera will make a profit and pay his workers what he said would be a "livable wage." Noting his country's abandonment of the hyperinflation struck Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, he said: "The adoption of the United States ...
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