Give Us Jobs First!, Vendors Return To Cities Again
14 July 2015
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No amount of bullying, burning, or bashing can turn away Zimbabwe’s vendors, the street merchants have proved after they made a boisterous return to the cities yesterday.
 
Barely (3) three days after they were brutally bashed by the police, the vendors have vowed with their lives as they seek to sustain their families in this time of catastrophic economic turmoil.
 
Recent revelations that the Municipal Police are army trained will not stop them.
 
Zimbabwe Informal Sector Organisations(ZISO) Director Promise Mkwananzi told ZimEye.com the vendors are not going anywhere until government has provided employment or at the least commercial restoration.
“More than thirty vendors arrested and heavily assaulted. We have resolved to reconstruct structures tomorrow and continue selling,”  said Mkwananzi.
 
Government two weeks ago created vendor facility properties outside the city. But these areas are out of reach for most customers and there is no business life there.
The vendors who constitute over six(6)million people outnumber Zimbabwe’s entire electorate.
“We are going nowhere we have been there and I tell you, you cannot even make 5 dollars a day,”  one David Mako told ZimEye.com