The Harare City Council has launched an operation to rid the central business district of pirate taxi operators, colloquially referred to as
mshika-shika.

This follows the City’s successful
removal of vendors from the CBD. Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba told the Daily News:”We are geared to cleaning up the city once and for all. At times we have seen that the police and our staff are not doing enough to reign in on illegal pirate taxis. We sometimes see municipal police parked opposite illegal pirate taxis with no action being taken.This will no longer be tolerated”-Daily News