Thursday, 28 April, 2016
Trust Matsilele, CNBCafrica.com
“My parents were subsistence farmers who farmed to pay my school fees. After I completed my ordinary levels I moved to Gweru to work at Sino Cement Company,” recalls Dhafana who is in the business of gentlemen.
“My first salary in Zimbabwe was 1099.00 Zimbabwean dollars but by the time I left in 2009, it was in the millions,” he says of his and the country’s decline that pushed many into the region and Western Europe.
His rise was never without enough hurdles.
“I relocated to South Africa in 2009. I stayed at Musina Refugee Camp for two weeks looking for documents that would ease my travel. In Johannesburg I stayed at the Central Methodist Church.”
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