Vendors Clash With Police In Harare's CBD
There were running battles between vendors and the police over the weekend as Harare City Council intensified its crackdown on illegal vendors over the weekend.
On Saturday policed chased vendors from their selling points at Fourth Street bus termini and Coppa Cabbana confiscating vendors’ wares in the process.
Michael Chideme HCC corporate communications manager said that chasing away the vendors from the CBD was a way of fighting the Cholera epidemic which has killed more than 25 people to date.
Said Chideme:
We have cholera and this is part of the fight against the epidemic, we are taking the vendors to their designated sites
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In response to the police crackdown, National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) Chairperson Sten Zvorwadza said removing vendors from the streets through confrontation will not work and government should pursue persuasive and participatory strategies to remove them.
Said Zvorwadza:
The process of removing informal workers from the streets should be through dialogue and they should voluntarily leave the streets rather than through confrontation.
Confrontation has not worked in the past, it has failed so many times and it will still fail again
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