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Nyasha Chingono in Harare

‘Electricity can go anytime here’: how Zimbabwe’s iron men ran out of steam

Nhamo Chari runs an ironing business in Mbare.
Nhamo Chari runs an ironing business in Mbare. Photograph: Nyasha Chingono

Inside a grimy flat in the heart of Mbare, one of Zimbabwe’s oldest townships, steam billows from a hissing iron.

It is 7am and Nhamo Chari, 42, is racing to finish ironing a client’s clothes before the power cuts out.

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