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Zungueiras in Luanda without profits "battle" only for their children's bread

Street vendors in Luanda complain about the “poor profitability” of the activity, which a year ago, due to the limitations of the covid-19, is only involved in a “battle” for the “search for bread for the children” and the absence of profits.

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Zungueiras, as street vendors in Angola are known, claim that the activity is no longer profitable, mainly due to covid-19, and their daily trajectory is summed up only in the search for the little to support their children.

They say that the 10,000 kwanzas, which a year ago were used for business expenses, are currently insignificant and that only three times the initial value, products for resale are now available.

In the warehouses where they buy the products they sell, prices have skyrocketed, and the situation, they report, makes it difficult to sell to the final consumer and the product often ends up being sold at the buyer's discretion to "not lose bread".

"Because when you give the price 800 kwanzas to a toothpaste that cost 600 kwanzas in the warehouse, customers do not accept it and sometimes we have to go down to be able to take dinner home", told Lusa Antonica Morais Nsimba, street vendor.

For 15 years in the "zunga", Antonica says that her difficulties were aggravated in 2020 from the measures determined by the authorities, due to the covid-19, and today they continue to be reflected in everyday life.

"We go to the warehouse and the money is no longer enough to buy things, which have gone up a lot. Seeing everything that appears, from blades, toothpaste, brushes, cotton swabs, but everything is expensive", he stressed.

"Before, we spent 10,000 kwanzas and it was enough for business expenses, but now even 50,000 kwanzas is not enough and we are praying that things will go down," she said.

The seller still has in mind the difficulties experienced in the period of state of emergency, between March and May 2020, referring that her husband "always had to fight" to ensure that the family had "something to eat". "It was very difficult," she recalled.

With a bundle of clothes on her head, signaling the product she sells, we find the buzzard Felizarda Maria who, despite the difficulties, displays a willingness to "fight for survival" so that "dinner is not missed at home".

"The most important thing is that there is no lack of dinner at home, there is always that daily bread and we thank God", she stressed.

Covid-19, she said, was reflected "negatively" in the price of clothing, which in the market goes up day after day, and on the street each item of clothing that it sells varies between 500 kwanzas and 3,500 kwanzas.

"We are asking for this to pass, for things to return as it was in the past. Previously with 10,000 kwanzas the person was able to do business, but now to have business between 30,000 kwanzas and 70,000 kwanzas", he stressed.

Ilda Maria Faustino, a street vendor for five years, sadly acknowledges the increase in product prices at the level of suppliers and says that currently the sale is only "to remedy".

The cookies she sells, of different flavors and sizes, fill her hands and the bathtub she carries, her head. Attentive to the movement of passers-by she said that she seeks only a profit of 100 kwanzas in each package that she sells.

"Due to lack of money, I choose to buy only half a box of each type and size of cookie, spent for the business 30,000 kwanzas and profit I can get 5000 kwanzas", she described.

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