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Zimbabwe: Vendors Vow to Stay Put As Govt Launches 'Clean Up' Blitz
New Zimbabwe, 13 October 2017
Police on Thursday launched "operation restore order" to rid the capital's central business district of thousands of vendors after President Robert Mugabe condemned the bric-a-brac… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: We Are Your Creation - Vendors Tell Mugabe As Blitz Starts
New Zimbabwe, 13 October 2017
President Robert Mugabe must allow vendors to work without disturbances since he created them, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) chairperson Samuel… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Minister Chikukwa Gives Thumbs Up to Vendors' Removal
The Herald, 13 October 2017
The removal of vendors from undesignated vending sites, which began this week, will ensure that girls are free from sexual harassment, Harare Provincial Affairs Minister Miriam… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Wants to Displace Urban Voters - Workers Union
New Zimbabwe, 10 October 2017
President Robert Mugabe's clear-out vendors from central Harare is aimed at dispersing the urban vote ahead of next year's elections, a labour union has warned. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Orders Harare Clean-Up
News24Wire, 9 October 2017
President Robert Mugabe's government has threatened a blitz on Harare's street vendors, similar to one that left hundreds of thousands of people without homes or jobs 12 years ago. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Govt Orders Vendors, Pirate Taxis Out of CBD
The Herald, 12 October 2017
Government has ordered illegal vendors and pirate taxis operating in the Central Business District (CBD) to move to designated sites with immediate effect. Addressing journalists… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Get Illegal Vendors Off the Streets - President
The Herald, 9 October 2017
PRESIDENT Mugabe has deplored the vendor menace and lack of order in the Harare central business district (CBD), saying Harare should be the smartest city in the country as the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Deal Decisively With Illegal Vending
The Herald, 10 October 2017
IT must be stated from the onset that illegal vending in Harare and other urban centres is a complex issue that has many facets. It is an economic issue. It's also a sociological,… Read more »