Zimbabwe has some of the most expensive mobile internet in Africa, so people in border towns often buy black market SIM cards from neighboring Mozambique. The availability of cheaper data has even turned the town of Chimanimani into an unlikely remote working hub.
Chimanimani’s cheap black market internet access has allowed it to escape the fate of other rural towns across Africa, where young workers move away to bigger cities in search of better job opportunities.
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