The government of Zimbabwe has, since 2018, been engaged in a process of neo-liberal restructuring which is synonymous with the structural adjustment programme of the 1990s. One of the most…
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The Combined Harare Residents Association condemns the intention by Harare City Council to demolish tuck-shops at a time when the Zimbabwean economy is in dire straits and heavily informalised due…
Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), in their recent situational report on illegal mining activities taking place in protected areas, noted that illegal miners are encroaching onto sacred areas when carrying…
Introduction This policy brief explores the challenges faced by youth as a result of the deteriorating socio-economic and political violence and effects of exclusion. It also highlights the importance of…
The Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) heartily welcomes the completion of Mbare Farmers Market rehabilitation and renovation by Oxfam Zimbabwe with support from UNDP Zimbabwe under the…
Bulawayo residents have expressed mixed feelings over the government’s decision to extend the 30-day Covid-19-induced lockdown by a further two weeks, as the powers-that-be seek to bring the pandemic under…
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) Executive Director, Samuel Wadzai has implored the government to recognise informal traders as essential service providers in order to ease their plight…
Introduction This report emerges from a Community Water Alliance (CWA) commissioned rapid assessment of the COVID-19 compliance of urban markets in the Chitungwiza Municipal area. The Development Governance Institute (DEGI)…
Women in informal cross-border trade have welcomed the re-opening of the country`s border orders, as their livelihoods had taken a serious knock. The land borders which include Beitbridge, Plumtree, Chirundu, Victoria Falls and Forbes are…
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation held a graduation ceremony for 25 of its graduate vendors who participated in a two week Entrepreneurial training programme to equip them with…