EDITOR — I WRITE this letter to express my views on the issue of vendors that has rocked the country over the past few years.
I seek to highlight among other issues that I agree with President Robert Mugabe when he says Harare as the country’s capital city should be the cleanest of all cities.
It must be the real ‘Sunshine City’.
It is from this point of view that I believe that no matter how much the vendors cry foul, the fact is that they are operating on undesignated areas, in the process making the capital city an eyesore that it has become.
Sometime back, the Government working with the Harare City Council identified some places where vendors were supposed to go about their business without causing the chaos that we now witness on a daily basis on the streets of Harare.
It is not a secret that the vendors refused to make use of those designated areas but are now strangely accusing authorities of turning against them when there are places of operation for them lying idle.
It is also not a secret that vendors are the cause of chaos that now pervades the City of Harare and this must surely be nipped in the bud.
We can’t have a situation where a group of people who have been given places to operate from are responsible for the chaos that is affecting the majority of the people in the city centre today.
Vendors must be responsible and must respect the law.

Rupert Garandarima,
Harare.