100 vendors injured in scuffles with cops

MORE than 100 vendors have been injured by the police in central Harare, with some being hospitalised following a directive last month by the government to evict informal traders selling food in the central business district (CBD), Vendors Initiative for Socio-economic Transformation (Viset), has said.

The government last month formed a ministerial taskforce on controlling the further eruption and spread of typhoid and issued an ultimatum to vendors selling foodstuffs in the streets countrywide to cease their operations.
Harare vendors were blamed for the outbreak and spread of typhoid.

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