Traditional Foods Lucrative Business

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FRANCISTOWN: She is no ordinary street vendor. She is an entrepreneur par excellence. In this time and era when our culture is slowly but surely receiving some severe battering from foreign cultures, she epitomes a small band of locals eager to preserve traditional Setswana foodstuffs.

She may also be viewed as a true example of the creativity and innovativeness that we need as a nation to survive in this competitive and globalised world. When many of her colleagues are busy selling vegetables such as tomatoes and onions, she has decided to go for something unique.

In fact, 50-year-old Tsitsi Mbakile represents the growing number of female-headed households that are becoming part of our culture. To her, women self-economic empowerment is not a mere theoretical concept but a daily reality.

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