The study's goal was to document the difficulties that young unregistered traders in Zimbabwe's Chinhoyi town confront. The lack of focus on the difficulties encountered by young informal merchants by local and national regulatory bodies served as the impetus for the study. Since this study draws on the everyday experiences of young informal traders and their navigation of the complex issues they face, we feel it broadens our knowledge of the challenges these individuals face. The study, which used a qualitative research approach and focus groups, indepth interviews, and documentary analysis as data generation tools, discovered that young informal traders face a number of difficulties, including a lack of funding, harassment from local authorities, a lack of mentorship, and competition from more established traders. Thus, the study found and came to the conclusion that young entrepreneurs use a variety of survival techniques in this challenging environment, including borrowing money from friends and family and depending on a wide range of mentorship and coaching programs from diverse sources. The report suggests that the public and private sectors shoulder the burden of fostering these budding entrepreneurs.
Siansonga et al. (2025) studied this question.