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1. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Siphiwo Fumbeza

   Creating associations that strengthen individual farming enterprises can pave way to economic success (opens the original)

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   Across rural communities, millions of hectares of productive land remain underused. The same applies to vast numbers of livestock that are not fully commercialised. And this is not because people lack the desire to farm but because they often lack the organisation, support systems and market access needed to transform agricultural activity into wealth. While governments have long promoted co-operatives as the primary vehicle for rural development, this approach has frequently overlooked an impor

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2. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Siphiwo Fumbeza

   INSIGHT | It’s time to invest in future of Dikeni’s informal traders (opens the original)

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   On any ordinary day in Dikeni, the local economy does not unfold in offices or policy documents, it lives in the open. It is visible along roadside pavements, at taxi ranks, and in public spaces where traders stand under the sun, in the wind and in the rain, selling fruit, cooked food, household goods and traditional products. This is not a recent phenomenon. Dikeni [formerly Alice] traces its origins back to 1824 as a mission settlement, and from the earliest days of its existence, black trader

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