Zimbabwe has banned the importation and retailing of second-hand clothes with immediate effect.
Zimbabwe’s Minister for Local Government and Public Works, Daniel Garwe, also announced the immediate banning of street and night time vending.
Thousands of Zimbabweans relied on selling second-hand clothes, street and night-time vending in Harare’s central business district. Zimbabwe’s economy is around 77% informal.
The tragedy is that banning what feeds the majority in a 77% informal economy is like cutting off the only branch you are sitting on.
Zimbabwe yarambidza kupinzwa nekutengesa hembe dzekupfeka dzakashandiswa, zvichitanga kushanda nhasi.
Gurukota reLocal Government nePublic Works, Daniel Garwe, vazivisawo kurambidzwa kwekutengesa mumigwagwa nekutengesa manheru zvichitanga nhasi.
Zviuru zvemaZimbabweans zvaitarisira kuwana raramo nekutengesa hembe dzekupfeka dzakashandiswa, kutengesa mumigwagwa nekutengesa manheru muHarare central business district. Hupfumi hweZimbabwe hwakatenderedza 77% huri muinformal sector.
Njodzi iripo ndeyekuti kurambidza chinhu chinopa raramo kuvanhu vakawanda muinformal economy ye77% kwakafanana nekucheka bazi remuti rawaka garira.