Cops brutalise vendors

AT least 15 street vendors in Harare including their leaders were yesterday beaten up by municipal police and bundled into a council truck before they were handed over to the police as the war against informal traders escalated.

Sten Zvorwadza, chairman of the National Vendors’ Union of Zimbabwe, and National Vendors’ Union of Zimbabwe director Samuel Wadzai were also caught up in the skirmishes.

They two were brutally assaulted by the menacing council police.

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