Zimbabwe: Looking Back – Open-Air Market Plan for Harare

Harare Musika will soon have a new open-air market. Salisbury Municipality is spending more than $100 000 to make this a reality.

Work is well under way tarring a 1,9-hectare area east of the existing covered market. Before the municipality stepped in, this site had been “colonised” by hundreds of illegal marketeers selling their wares in makeshift stalls.

Being close to the bus terminal and the city, the site was like a magnet, drawing people to the open space, made vacant by the demolition of…