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The Bulawayo City Council says it has allocated 419 of the 576 vending bays along Fifth Avenue market in the central business district.
In a statement issued on Friday, Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube said the allocation processes will be completed by Wednesday, 8 May 2024. Said Dube:
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The City of Bulawayo would like to advise members of the public that 576 vending stalls have been demarcated along Fifth Avenue.
The allocation of these bays is in progress with all necessary due processes being carried out to ensure that the allocation process is done meticulously.
The allocation is also being done in consultation with the Informal Traders Working Group in line with Council policies.
To date, 419 vending bays, covering both the new and second-hand clothing, as well as the fruit and vegetables have been allocated and beneficiaries are doing the rest of the formalities, which include the health and hygiene requirements before moving to the site.
It is anticipated that the allocation processes will be completed by Wednesday, 8th May 2024 and, that all beneficiaries should have taken their positions by this date.
Members of the public and stakeholders are therefore requested to be patient to allow Council to complete the allocation process.
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This statement comes a day after several vendors were arrested in the CBD after clashing with municipal police who had moved to confiscate wares.
The informal traders also staged a demonstration, accusing the council of delaying the allocation process and also allocating the stalls to individuals who were not originally from Bulawayo.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

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Bulawayo City Council Has Allocated 419 Vending Bays In The CBD - Town Clerk

Informal traders in Harare say the City Council should come up with by-laws that are humane and take into account the economic realities of the country that push ordinary people into vending to make a living.
This comes after the Harare City Council introduced a set of by-laws to ban vending in the central business district (CBD) without a valid permit or lease agreement.
As reported by <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200026327/harare-heads-for-a-clash-with-vendors">NewsDay</a>, the council also banned pushcarts commonly referred to as “zvingoro” used at informal trading places in Mbare such as Magaba, Mupedzanhamo and Mbare Musika bus terminus.
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) executive director, Samuel Wadzai, said the new by-laws are harsh on informal traders. Said Wadzai:
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These laws will definitely have a huge negative impact on people who survive through vending and informal work given the status of the economy.
This is not the best time to try to outlaw vending; it’s where the majority are surviving [from].
Our view is we need by-laws that are humane, by-laws that are in sync with the economic realities of the country.
What is being proposed by Harare City Council is totally unacceptable given the status of our economy.
We will put counter proposals… we should be working together but the laws should not be there to prevent people from surviving.
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A representative of informal traders, Wisborn Malaya, said the local authority did not consult them before enacting the new by-laws. He said:
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As always the challenge we face is that the city fathers just set up laws without consultation. In the end, the laws become more abusive and destructive instead of promoting order.
The city should designate strategic places for pushcart traders to operate from in an orderly manner using a four-arrow zoning system.
This will promote order and sanity in the city. It will also allow the council to monitor the licensing of the same without struggle.
These (vendors) are the youths who are fighting to earn a living legally. It’s a source of employment and food distribution which just requires smart regulation and not harsh laws.
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The Harare City Council also banned “street” butcheries and noise in the central business district.
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Harare City Council Heads For A Clash With Vendors

The City of Bulawayo has finally yielded to pressure from residents to allow informal traders operating at the 5th Avenue market in the city centre to operate legally.
Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube announced the latest development in a statement issued on Thursday, 08 February. He said:
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The Bulawayo City Council at its meeting of 7 February 2024 resolved to temporarily close a portion of 5th Avenue to accommodate 500 informal trading bays.
The closure of a portion of 5th Avenue will comply with the Roads Act Chapter 13:13 Part VI Section 33 and rescind previous Council resolutions of 3rd June 2020 and 7 December 2022.
The portion of 5th Avenue will now have two riding lanes and vending bays for the 500 informal traders.
Council recognises the need to strike a balance amongst multiple functionalities such as parking, informal trading, vehicular traffic movement and access to property by property owners, hence the closure of a portion of 5th Avenue.
The temporary closure will ensure that all road users including property owners from the Southern side can park their vehicles close to their working spaces.
The decision to temporarily close 5th Avenue is a result of stakeholder engagement and further dovetails into the City of Bulawayo’s strategy to enhance local economic development through the provision of accessible and affordable working spaces.
The temporary closure of 5th Avenue will be complemented by the establishment of a new vending site for clothing and fruits along Lobengula Street between the 2nd Avenue terminus and the municipal Roads Yard.
We expect all traders on 5th Avenue to vacate the road to allow the implementation of the Council resolution. 
The execution of the resolution will entail cleaning the area, demarcation of bays, construction of safe working spaces and allocation of vending bays in the usual manner.
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Dube said to be registered, informal traders should produce a copy of their identity document (I.D), processed fingerprint forms, proof of residence for a property in Bulawayo, two passport-size photos and requisite fees for the licence.
He said for those trading in fruits and vegetables, pre-examination for contagious diseases and lessons on food handling with the City of Bulawayo Health Services Department (Khami Road Clinic) is required.
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Bulawayo City Council Legalises Vending In CBD

Some vendors have returned to their usual spots in the sunshine city’s CBD and surrounding areas, the NewsDay reports. This is after the president, in a bid to curb spreading COVID-19 announced that certain sectors of the economy will be opened while others especially the informal trading sector will remain closed.
Vendors that spoke to the publication said they were pushed by hunger to come back and hustle for something to eat in their usual spots:
<blockquote>We have no choice, but to come and work because there is nothing to eat at home. At times, the police try to disburse us, but it is difficult to go home without anything to feed the family.</blockquote>
Health experts have warned that allowing informal traders to come back to their daily duties might be catastrophic as it might spread the deadly virus.
However, director for the Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation Samuel Wadzai said the government was not being fair in allowing other sectors to go back to work but prohibiting informal traders to go back to work:
<blockquote>It doesn’t make sense to have government partially opening industry and commerce while shutting out informal traders. How do they expect people to survive? There are no jobs and people rely on vending. Government is yet to disburse the cushioning allowances to the vulnerable and honestly, how do they expect people to survive?</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2020/05/we-would-rather-die-of-covid-19-than-starve-under-lockdown/">Newsday </a>

Vendors And Other Informal Traders In Illegal Lockdown Comeback

A group of 20 Informal traders associations have released a statement demanding the bailout grants the government promised informal traders and vendors who were affected by the lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19, Open Parly reports.
Below is the statement written by the associations to the government:
<blockquote>We the undersigned associations, concerned about the delays in the payments of the cushioning grants that was supposed to cushion vendors and informal traders;
We call upon government through its relevant ministries to provide information on progress made so far. We also call on government through its relevant ministries to immediately release the cushioning fund as the situation is dire for many vendors and informal traders.
We also call on government to state the proposed figures that will be disbursed. Press releases have stated that the expected amount is ZWL$200, we would like to state that the proposed figure is very paltry considering the prevailing prices of basic commodities.
We would like to remind Government that our members are suffering from hunger in their houses and the truth is that there is no food in their houses, our members living with chronic diseases are at greater risk at this moment.
Vendors and informal traders are aware of the dangers posed by #COVID19 and we are willing and ready to honour the directive to stay at home during this difficult time as a nation of Zimbabwe &amp; the entire world at large but hunger is now another big disaster in households.
We are now receiving cases of domestic violence because families are beginning to have fights due to shortages of food.
We would like to let government know that some of most of our members will be not able to restock because all their little incomes have been depleted on food.
We also strongly condemn the demolition and razing down of vendors and informal traders working spaces, without coming up with clear alternative designated trading spaces.
In the same vein, the government &amp; local authorities must consult/involve the informal sector representatives in decision making before they make resolutions that affect the livelihood of informal sector players since now 85% of the nation is in the informal sector.
We also call for an immediate stop to the demolitions across the country. For example, in Gweru people were given till today (Sunday) to clear their stalls, as of tomorrow demolitions start. 
We hope government will urgently pay attention to the issues that we have raised in this statement
Endorsed by: 
1. Vendors Initiative for Social Economic Transformation (VISET) 
2. Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) 
3. National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) 
4. WABAZ Women Alliance of Business Associations in Zimbabwe. 
5. Zimbabwe Applied Arts in Craft Association (ZAACA) 
6. Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) 
7. Zimbabwe Cross Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) 
8. Zimbabwe Informal Traders Council (ZITC) 
9. Zimbabwe Progressive Airtime Vendors Association (ZPAVA) 
10. Small Medium Enterprises Association of Zimbabwe (SMEAZ) 
11. 100% Empowerment Trust 
12. Chipinge Chamber of SMEs 
13. Combined Cross Border (CCB) 
14. Zimbabwe Vendors Association (ZVA) 
15. Zimbabwe Rapid Vendors Trust (ZRVT) 
16. Zimbabwe Home Industries and Marketers Association ( ZHIMA) 
17. Sovereign Empowerment Trust (SET) 
18. Harare Central Economic Empowerment Trust (HaCEET) 
19. Kuwadzana Home Industries Trust 
20. Zimbabwe Development Network TRUST (ZDNT)
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FULL TEXT: A Group Of Informal Traders Associations Demands Cushioning Grant Promised By The Govt

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