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Zanu
PF extorts from Dzivarasekwa vendors
Combined Harare
Residents Association (CHRA)
April 26, 2007
Zanu PF officials
from Harare Province are allocating market stalls to residents in
Dzivarasekwa 1, 2, and 3. One of the officials responsible for Dzivarasekwa
2 only identified as Mr Mapuranga goes around shopping centres and
demands that those selling their wares must pay a certain amount
of money in order to be allowed to operate as vendors. The figures
being charged vary from $5 000 to $11 000 every month since February
this year.
Mr Mapuranga
allegedly acts as the shadow councillor for Ward 40. He works in
cahoots with another senior Zanu PF official in the Provincial Women’s
League Executive only identified by residents as Mrs Muswe and is
believed to be working as a nurse aide at Belvedere Clinic.
According to
Rorani Muchiwa, the CHRA Chairperson for Ward 40 in Dzivarasekwa
those who refuse to pay the demanded money are barred from selling
their wares at the market and face constant harassment from the
Zanu PF activists in the area.
The majority
of the vendors in Dzivarasekwa are victims of the widely-condemned
Operation Murambatsvina which was launched by government in May
2005, leaving 700 000 people homeless and in need of food aid.
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fact
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