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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 »
Mugabe Orders Crackdown on Street Vendors
President Robert Mugabe has ordered a crackdown on poor citizens eking a living out of street vending in most of the country's major cities, 12 years after a similar exercise left multitudes without livelihoods or homes. The vendors have vowed to stay put until government has created the 2,2 million jobs it promised in the run-up to the 2013 elections.
InFocus
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Typhoid has killed nine people in Harare and is affecting dozens more, raising fears that the country's water and sanitation problems could lead to a cholera outbreak. Read more »
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The police fought running battles with vendors who were protesting the confiscation of their goods. Read more »
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The High Court has postponed the hearing of an application by political parties against the protest ban. Read more »
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Vendors are resisting the move by the government to ban selling fruit and vegetables in an effort to fight the spread of typhoid, saying the state has to give them jobs first. Read more »
