Comment by mmsimanga

Ha, I have seen this story before. Zimbabwe my country of birth has screwed the economy so bad that no sane person/company is going to invest there. The result is most of the big players have pulled out and all manner of cottage industries have sprung up. I have watched a woman manually pack popcorn packets in her kitchen, all manner of workshops exist to repair electronics and car parts (I live in South Africa (SA) where the old part is mostly just thrown away). In Zim, people make bricks the old fashioned way with not a single piece of automation. Just shovels, wheelbarrows, brick moulds and mud. Without the big players small players can play a role. Zim has taken it too far though, making business conditions nearly impossible without bribes...