This was the heartbreaking moment a female vendor put herself under a Harare City Council truck after her goods were confiscated in the capital on Tuesday.
A Nehanda TV citizen reporter captured the events near the Charge Office (Inez Terrace) as a crowd gathered around the truck urging her to come out from underneath. The woman was eventually removed from underneath the truck but they still went away with her goods
Police in the capital are carrying out a violent crackdown on unlicensed street vendors marked by beatings, destruction of their goods, and arbitrary arrests.
The majority of street vendors are women living in extreme poverty, part of the more than 70 percent of Zimbabweans who live on less than US$1.25 per day.
In the run-up to the 2013 elections President Robert Mugabe’s regime promised, as part of their campaign, to create 2,2 million jobs.
Instead over 20 000 people have lost their jobs following a Supreme Court ruling allowing employers to terminate contracts on three months notice.
Companies argue that they are struggling to survive the current economic collapse.
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