POLITICS

Scores injured as vendors, police clash

POLICE in Gweru on Monday evening fired teargas to disperse crowds in the city's central business district after violent clashes with vendors who were resisting confiscation of their wares.The skirmis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 November 2018

POLITICS

Gweru MP to sue police over vendors' confiscated wares

Gweru Urban MP Brian Dube (MDC Alliance) says he is preparing a court challenge to compel police to return various commodities they confiscated from vendors operating inside Gweru's Kudzanayi long dis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 November 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare vendors fight back

Police are maintaining a heavy presence in most of the country's cities as authorities fear the worst amid a clampdown on desperate vendors who are now fighting back.In Harare, law enforcers have pepp...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Cops, vendors clash

VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Gweru vendors bow down to Joc blitz

ILLEGAL vendors in Gweru have piled pressure on council to regularise their operations following a blitz by the Joint Operations Command in conjunction with municipal police to flush them out of the c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa meets vendors today

President Mnangagwa is today expected to meet vendors at Harare International Conference Centre to discuss issues affecting informal workers. The event is being organised by the National Vendors' Unio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zvorwadza urges vendors to embrace new dispensation

Informal traders in the Midlands Province have been urged to support the new dispensation and spurn attempts by some political parties to influence them against participating in the economic developme...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vendors, high rentals drive companies out of CBD

THERE is a growing trend in Harare where an increasing number of companies is seeking to buy or rent property in residential areas on the periphery of the central business district (CBD), a property ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

BCC to unleash night municipal cops on vendors

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is contemplating unleashing municipal police on night patrol duties to flush out vendors, who avoid paying vending fees by selling their wares at undesignated sites after h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vendors storm court

VENDORS from Mbare stormed the Mbare Magistrates' Court yesterday to witness the trial of a senior police officer, Joseph Nemaise, who allegedly assaulted and terrorised them with impunity last year.N...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 February 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vendors defy Govt

Illegal vendors who had heeded the call by Government to stay away from the streets on Monday, began trooping back into the Harare central business district (CBD) yesterday.The vendors could be seen i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vendors' removal from CBD fails to kick off

The clampdown against vendors that was supposed to start yesterday under "Operation Restore Legacy" seemed to have failed to kick off as they continued parading their wares on pavements in the Central...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2017

POLITICS

Reprieve for Mutare vendors

Vendors in Mutare got a temporary reprieve on Monday after Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs Mandi Chimene instructed council and police to allow them to sell their wares from the ed...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 October 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Second-hand clothes traders join bandwagon

Harare's thriving second-hand clothing market has embraced the use of plastic money as traders fear being thrown out of business due to cash shortages, this paper has established.The new way of doing ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 July 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim street vendors to pay $1 a day State levy

It has been reported that the Zimbabwe government is planning to step up its revenue collection efforts with a crackdown on all informal traders.According to TechZim, this blitz will also rope in the ...

By TechZim | Published: 29 July 2014

BUSINESS NEWS

Street vendors to sell prepaid Zesa cards

Cash strapped Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority has upgraded its prepaid electricity meter system to allow users to buy coupons from street vendors and selected outlets.The system begins today, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 June 2013
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