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Kwekwe shuts out vendors from CBD

The Kwekwe City Council has confirmed that there is no space available for vendors in the Central Business District (CBD) and that change of land use to accommodate them will not be permitted, Mayor Albert Zinhanga has said.The Mayor made …

Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 05:45hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter

Vendors bemoan exorbitant licensing fees at new Mbare Musika market

The Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) has urged authorities to slash vending licensing fees at the newly-constructed Mbare Musika Market, warning that current costs are driving informal traders back to the s…

Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:34hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter

Mozambican vendors invade Zimbabwe

On January 2, 2025, 18-year-old Castigo Quembo from Matazi village near Manica in Mozambique left home and crossed into Zimbabwe through an illegal entry point close to the Machipanda-Forbes Border Post. Alongside two close friends, Quembo…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Presidential scheme disburses US$200 000 for vendors

Thousands of informal traders across Zimbabwe have received a major financial boost following the launch of the Presidential Vendors Empowerment Scheme, which has availed US$200,000 in seed capital to support and formalise vendor enterpris…

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 18:29hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo City Council launches crackdown to clean CBD

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has embarked on a city-wide crackdown targeting illegal street vending, with intensified day and night raids now actively underway in the Central Business District (CBD). The operation aims to enforce existing b…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 18:09hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter

Small town councillors plan US$50,000 South Korea trip

Residents of Chiredzi and disgruntled council workers have voiced strong opposition to a planned overseas trip by the town council chairperson and two junior councillors to South Korea next month. The delegation is set to attend the Intern…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Inside Zimbabwe's market of pregnant vendors

Commuters along Seke Road have started calling the busy H Bus stop by a new and curious name - "Pamimba", a term referring to pregnancy in Shona. The moniker reflects an unusual yet poignant reality: a growing number of pregnant women sell…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:35hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter

MPs push for legislation to protect vendors

Members of Parliament have launched a renewed call for legislative measures to protect the livelihoods of vendors, following concerns over the frequent confiscation of their goods by law enforcement authorities.Norton legislator Richard Ts…

Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 08:23hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt workers moonlight as street vendors

Every morning, Dumisani Ngara* gets up at dawn to catch a 6:30am bus to work at Zimbabwe's Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities. The government-provided bus is free for civil servants in Harare, and on his $250 monthly salary,…

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 12:41hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter

Vendors demand justice against Insiza councillor

Vendors and community members at Shangani Business Centre in Insiza, Matebeleland South, are calling for the swift delivery of justice in a fraud case involving local Councillor Nomusa Moyo (Citizens Coalition for Change). The councillor i…

Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 06:52hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo vendors ignore BCC ultimatum

Informal traders in Bulawayo's central business district (CBD) have continued their operations despite a relocation deadline set by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) today. Vendors remain unfazed by the directive, with many expressing concer…

Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 11:34hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo City Council orders pushcart ban to restore order

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced the immediate relocation of all vendors operating along 5th Avenue to designated vending sites, in line with a Government directive aimed at restoring order and eliminating illegal trading acti…

Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 06:53hrs | 1934 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo relocates 5th Avenue informal traders

The City of Bulawayo has announced the relocation of informal traders from 5th Avenue to the Bhaktas 2 Site, situated along Lobengula Street and 2nd Avenue, as part of efforts to decongest the Central Business District (CBD) and enhance or…

Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 15:17hrs | 5823 | by Staff reporter

Chief tells Minister to 'speak our local language'

Chief Nyakunhuwa, born Oswell Maguta, has recently raised an important issue concerning the use of English during public speeches, especially in rural areas. Speaking at the official opening of the Zaka Community Seed Bank in Ward 17 on We…

Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 10:17hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo City Council approves free use of venues for half marathon

Bulawayo City Council has granted approval for the use of its facilities for the upcoming Bulawayo Half Marathon, allowing organisers free access to key venues for the event scheduled for 19 April 2025.According to the latest council minut…

Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 10:13hrs | 1893 | by Staff reporter

Police vow enforcement against all illegal vendors

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has pledged to assist municipalities and other security agencies in clearing vendors from the streets following a 48-hour ultimatum issued by Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe on Wed…

Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 10:12hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter

Obert Gutu urges humane handling of vendors' crisis

National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Obert Gutu has called for restraint and empathy in dealing with vendors, following the Zimbabwean government's order to remove them from the country's towns. Despite the grow…

Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 07:02hrs | 3063 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's Cabinet resolves to corner vendors

As Zimbabwe's economy continues to spiral downward, the government has introduced a series of controversial measures aimed at taxing the struggling informal sector and vendors to boost state revenue. Critics argue that instead of addressin…

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:21hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter

Supermarkets, vendors reject ZiG

In a significant economic shift, supermarkets, vendors, commuter omnibus operators, and tuckshops across Zimbabwe have stopped accepting payments in the local ZiG currency. This decision follows Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor John…

Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:10hrs | 1300 | by Staff reporter

Matopo Hills clean-up campaign

A Matopo-based environmental conservation organization has launched a series of clean-up campaigns aimed at preserving the heritage site where Cecil John Rhodes is buried. Located atop a granite hill within Matobo National Park, the site h…

Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 07:29hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Vendors sjambok municipal police officers

Last week, two Harare municipal police officers were hospitalized at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals after being assaulted with wooden sticks and sjamboks by vendors in the central business district.Kelvin Chikono (40) and Dereck Nyeke (33…

Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter

Parly challenges Zinara vendors

PARLIAMENT has challenged the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to pilot its e-tolling project with current vendors providing software and hardware systems at its tollgates before year end.Such a move, Parliamentary Portfolio …

Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 06:01hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter

Vendors defy Bulawayo council directive

IT was business as usual yesterday for vendors operating along 5th Avenue in the City Centre, as they openly defied a Bulawayo City Council directive to vacate the street by Sunday to pave the way for renovations.Last Friday, the council i…

Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

BCC orders vendors to vacate 5th Avenue by tomorrow

THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has issued a stern warning to vendors who are operating illegally along 5th Avenue. They have until tomorrow to leave the road or have their wares confiscated by the council.The BCC is on a mission to decong…

Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

BCC gives vendors ultimatum

INFORMAL traders have been given up to next week Friday to move to designated vending bays and pay for their licences or risk losing their wares.In consultation with the Office of the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution…

Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Vendors defy govt directive

HARARE fruit vendors have defied a government directive to vacate the streets as a way of curbing the spread of cholera which has claimed more than 150 lives.Government last week ordered urban council authorities to remove vendors from the…

Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Motorist ploughs into vendors, kills 2

TWO people died on the spot while eight others were seriously injured after a car veered off the road before ploughing into a group of vendors selling their wares by the roadside in Shurugwi on Wednesday.Midlands provincial police spokespe…

Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo vendors plead for mercy ahead of crackdown

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s ultimatum to illegal vendors and pushcart operators to vacate the city centre by Wednesday has been met with mixed feelings with some residents welcoming the move, while those affected, argued that the move wi…

Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

'Relocate vendors from Bulawayo CBD'

RESIDENTS have asked the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to relocate vendors to unoccupied industrial sites to decongest the central business district (CBD).Speaking at a virtual meeting between residents and council yesterday, a resident, Sib…

Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Gweru local authority should get their house in order

It is now a normal thing to go for days without water in Gweru yet they expect the residents to religiously pay their water bills, service charges etc.People will pay but in anger for being short changed They come with all excuses for…

Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 10:35hrs | | by AT Kadada

Vendors demand to be prioritised during vaccination

INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be allowed to conduct business at public trading pl…

Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Vendors demand to be prioritised during COVID-19 vaccination exercise

INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the on-going COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be allowed to conduct business at public trading p…

Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Bulawayo vendors bemoan licensing delays

BULAWAYO informal traders have rapped the local authority for taking long to license their vending stalls to enable them to resume their operations.The issue came out last Friday during a virtual meeting organised by the Bulawayo Vendors a…

Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zvorwadza should stop dragging vendors into ED's dirty hands

Stan Zvorwadza's utterances are stupid. He needs a psychiatrist especially when he claims that Chamisa and the late President Morgan Tsvangirai see Mnangagwa as a double hero.Stan Zvorwadza can not qualify to speak on behalf of President N…

Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | 13 | by Fanuel Chinowaita

MDC-T students condemns action by army

MDC-T STUDENT'S COUNCIL condemns in the strongest term the barbaric and diabolic action which has been taken by the ZNA and the city council municipality to remove vendors on the streets without an alternative. The Constitution of Zimbabwe…

Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita

Mugabe want vendors off the streets

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 capital. He said vendors operating in and around the capital s…

Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gweru CBD vendors resist eviction, back on the streets

VENDORS are back at undesignated selling points in the Gweru Central Business District after defying a council order to relocate to Swift Vendor Mart in the light industrial area.Two weeks ago, the local authority launched a blitz to rid t…

Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 13:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Blitz drives out CBD food vendors

A blitz carried out by the Zimbabwe Republic Police and Harare Municipal Police on food vendors in Harare since Tuesday has seen most of them heeding the call by city authorities to stop selling food to avoid spreading typhoid. The disease…

Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Vendors should respect the law to preserve our capital city

Street vending is pervasive across the globe, particularly in the developing world like Zimbabwe. It provides an important source of earnings for the unemployed especially in the urban areas, as well as a source of relatively inexpensive g…

Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 10:38hrs | 3 | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri

Harare a sunshine city or jungle city - a burden of women vendors

Some are physically challenged, some are widowed, some are HIV positive and some are homeless . The women vendors in Harare have suffered a lot in the hands of ruthless municipal police and state police who have cruelly abused their power …

Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 18:20hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha

Local authorities should take on the issue of vendors

The new Constitution of Zimbabwe has changed the basis of the relationship between the Ministry of Local Government and the Councils that administer local authorities throughout the country. For the first time the Constitution clearly sets…

Published: 01 Jul 2015 at 11:26hrs | 3 | by MDC-T

Ziso rubbishes the Herald story about vendors

Zimbabwe Informal Sectors Organization (ZISO) disputes the Herald's article of the 25th of June 2015 that NAVUS is the only vendors organization that is opposed to the forcible eviction of vendors from the streets.ZISO is vehemently oppose…

Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by ZISO

Zimbabwe University students graduating to be street vendors

Its very painful and shocking when Zimbabwe now turned Vending Capital of the world! Cities and Towns now turned to a dog eat dog scenario as desperate unemployed Zimbabweans jostle for customers in the fast growing industry of Vending. It…

Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by Richard M Simango

Dismissing our vendor economy is 'selling-out'

'The streets are our employers' : Dismissing our vendor economy is 'selling-out' and failure to nurture economic nationalism.The ultimatum by the state ordering vendors to leave 'undesignated' spaces in urban centres is not in touch with t…

Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 11:12hrs | 7 | by Richard Mahomva

The war between Vendors using Tomatoes and the Army using Guns

No to the Removal of Vendors and another Murambatsvina I was in town today along R.G Mugabe way with the vendors l like the spirit that they have, l  asked one of my friend what was his veiw on Chombo's statement on vendors ?"Ndi ndi …

Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Prof Richard M Simango

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