Philemon Jambaya
The cat-and-mouse fight between vendors and police continues to intensify with each passing day.
This comes after the closure of the Mupedzanhamo Flea Market.
According to the City of Harare, Mupedzanhamo accommodates 1 800 traders, who have been forced to trade their wares outside Rufaro Stadium and in the open ground adjacent Mbare Flats.
This has not gone down well with law enforcement agencies, who have resorted to using teargas to disperse vendors.
In the process, residents in Mbare are daily caught up in the fight and are affected by the tear smoke which has become the order of the day.
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) Director Samuel Wadzai described the action of the Police as barbaric.
“We condemn this in the strongest terms, police are being barbaric and violating the Constitution, we are engaging our lawyers on the best way to respond to this.
“It is sad that politicians are taking advantage of the desperation of vendors to come and wage their wars in the space of vendors. This is condemnable and we are going to respond to this,” Wadzai said.
Effort to get a comment from the police proved fruitless as police national Spokesperson Paul Nyathi’s number was not getting through by the time of writing.
Small to Medium Enterprises Committee Chairperson Denford Ngadziore said the government is to blame for the goings-on at Mupedzanhamo.
“The government, through JOC, has resolved to block us from opening Mupedzanhamo. They have assigned police officers who have blocked the road to Mupedzanhamo, you understand that as a City, we had resolved to open Mupedzanhamo by October 2022, but this has been stopped.
“Whatever the reason, we hope to engage the government again so that Mupedzanhamo can be reopened before the Christmas holidays,” Ngadziore said.
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