Association banner head for China to explore business opportunities.
Some of the women left yesterday while others will leave today as the association moves a gear in its quest to explore business opportunities in those markets. Another contingent will be leaving for Tanzania next week.
The women are from Bulawayo, Chiredzi, Triangle and Harare.
A local financial institution extended loans to these women to undertake the trips.
In an interview, CBTAZ president Mr Killer Zivhu said his organisation had taken a more aggressive stance to empower cross-border traders.
The advent of new technologies had brought opportunities through which Zimbabweans could import machinery, mostly digitalised, to engage in small scale processing.
“Our main thrust is to venture into small scale industries through import of small machinery seeing that the world has been digitalised now.”
He said the delegations to other parts of the globe also sought to do away with middlemen.
“We have decided that our people should go out there and bring the machinery and goods themselves. All along we have been buying things from Zambia or South Africa which do not originate from those countries but have been imported from countries out there.
“So we now see more scope in doing it ourselves instead of relying on the middlemen. In fact, we want a situation where people from Zambia, Namibia or any other countries will actually come to Zimbabwe to buy from us,” said Mr Zivhu as he saw off the first batch of the women that left for China yesterday.
Within the next two weeks CBTAZ will be sending delegations to Brazil, Argentina and South Sudan to explore these markets.

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