Gift Kugara - Mawire

Academic|RSS Fellow| FHEA|Vice-Chair ECR Network OR Society |ESPRC /UKRI Mathematical Sciences Member |Senior County Referee with London FA |Ex- Army

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Dr Maggie Mawire, Dr Kudzi Mawire and Dr Gift K Mawire under one roof yesterday in Sheffield. Priceless !

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@skidza @mamakaCleo @CrimeWatchZW NdeveZanu

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@asmuwalo1 @matigary lol Vakangwara vanoti zvipei doro

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@matinyarare @JacksonGerry

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@FIFAWC26Updates Some goals are simply worth more than 3 points

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That is precisely the missing chapter. The issue is not vendors versus shops, but order versus arbitrariness.
The vendor who pays council fees and respects designated space is also a rights-holder. When the law ignores the compliant and rewards the disorderly, it teaches citizens that obedience is a fool’s errand.
A humane market must protect both survival and order. Otherwise, the pavement becomes not a marketplace, but a referendum on failed governance.

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Try this more measured, wiser version:
No serious society should treat the informal trader as an enemy. Often, he is simply a citizen trying to survive where the formal economy has failed him.
But compassion should not blind us to order. A market cannot be built on desperation alone. It needs space, sanitation, safety, rules, property rights and dignity.
The real tragedy is not that people are trading outside OK. The tragedy is that Zimbabwe has allowed survival to spill onto pavements, then mistaken disorder for empowerment.
A humane state does not chase vendors away. It organises them.

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The vendor outside OK is not an enemy of property rights. Heis a refugee from a formal economy that no longer has enough room for him. The real question is not why he is on the pavement, but why the pavement has become Zimbabwe’s most reliable industrial policy.
Markets like order. Hunger does not wait for order. That is the tragedy in one frame.

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This photograph does not embarrass the vendor. It embarrasses the state.
Street trading is not uniquely Zimbabwean; even in the UK, and across EU people trade outside shops and stations. The difference is that serious societies organise informality with space, toilets, licences, bins, safety and dignity.
Here, survival is left to fight with disorder. The pavement is not the problem. The absence of planning is.

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@ZdvNap You made me laugh Sinyoro 🤣🤣🤣🤣 . You represent us well sekuru

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@SABCNews What happened to solidarity? Other refs or African teams should have pulled out

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@matigary Tried and tested!

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@ZTNPrime RESIGN Jacob!

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@Mavhure @RMajongwe Mischief

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@bla_bidza Zvadhakwa

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@EquityDiamond @NextScience @Thee_Iron_Duke That is where the wonder begins.

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@ZimViral Shurugwi

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@ElslieMagaisa Mwari vanoziva havo