Securico, the company that Zimbabwe’s Divine Ndhlukula started in her cottage in the late 1990s with four employees and very little capital, has become one of her country’s largest security firms.
According to her, perhaps the biggest barrier she had to face when she set it up was her gender.
“Obviously, as a woman, people would not believe that I could run a security company – particularly with no security background,” she told the BBC’s series African Dream.
