Harare municipality police brutality, a cause for concern

VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset)’s attention has been drawn to a video in circulation on social media depicting Harare City Council municipal police bludgeoning a vendor whose goods they had allegedly confiscated.

To say we are livid at the disproportionate application of force on an unarmed citizen trying to eke a living would be a gross understatement.

What particularly irks us as an organisation is that this is, but one example of the harrowing tales of informal economy workers at the hands of both municipal and Zimbabwe Republic Police, with many not having recourse to justice when unjustifiably getting their goods confiscated, in contravention of their constitutional rights.

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