Harare's CBD too noisy

Harare's Central Business District is too noisy a development that might derail the city's ambitious world-class city dream by 2025.

According to Sunday Mail, almost every other shop in town has taken to playing music to an unwilling audience through loud speakers, all in the name of wooing shoppers.

Street vendors, among them memory card, sim card, earphones, rat and insect killer sellers – probably sensing a defeat by the loudspeakers from the shops have resorted to wailing their wares off megaphones.

The chief culprit in breaking the noise by-laws has to be the supermarket opposite the former Ximex Mall, along Jason Moyo Avenue.

Shops have resorted to blaring music from their shop fronts to attract customers, in violation of city by-laws

The noise nuisance around that area, then perhaps, becomes an acquired syndrome.

Walking down Robert Mugabe Road, towards the western direction, one gets deeper into the madness that is now Harare City.

But if you haven't had enough of the nuisance and noise, a few steps down Robert Mugabe will take you to the corner with Mbuya Nehanda Street, where Budiriro and Glen View kombis have it as their own haven.

Harare City Council's spokesperson, Michael Chideme said it is illegal for anyone to be seen flouting any city by-laws, the noise one included.

"Anyone caught on the wrong side of the law," he added, rather tongue-in-cheek, "will be prosecuted."