{"id":191899,"date":"2025-02-20T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-looking-back-open-air-market-plan-for-harare\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:11:39","slug":"zimbabwe-looking-back-open-air-market-plan-for-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-looking-back-open-air-market-plan-for-harare\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Looking Back &#8211; Open-Air Market Plan for Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Harare Musika will soon have a new open-air market. Salisbury Municipality is spending more than $100 000 to make this a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">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 &#8220;colonised&#8221; by hundreds of illegal marketeers selling their wares in makeshift stalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502200407.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;colonised&#8221; by hundreds of illegal marketeers selling their wares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,500,4356,257,48191,7586,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-191899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-harare","tag-market","tag-news","tag-openair","tag-plan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}