Political activist and leader of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (Navuz) Sten Zvorwadza has been granted $200 bail by Harare Magistrate Josephine Sande after two days in detention. Zvorwadza was arrested on allegations of insulting and undermining the authority of the president after he vowed to defy President Mugabe’s directive to remove vendors from the CBD.
Zvorwadza was quoted by the Daily News as saying:
As the informal sector, we will not listen to such nonsense; we are going to stay in the streets. He is daydreaming. I bet with my head, the president has no capacity to remove vendors from the streets.
He must depart from this issue of day-dreaming. Mugabe must appreciate the role of the informal sector. Zimbabweans must understand that Mugabe is old and he is a dead man walking.
The move to chase away vendors will be a final blow to the dying economy. Mugabe is living a good life with his family; he thinks that we are in the streets because we want to do so, failing to understand that he is the one who created this situation.
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