{"id":193484,"date":"2025-03-13T19:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-orders-local-authorities-to-remove-vendors-from-undesignated-selling-points-within-48-hours\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:05:45","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-orders-local-authorities-to-remove-vendors-from-undesignated-selling-points-within-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-orders-local-authorities-to-remove-vendors-from-undesignated-selling-points-within-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Orders Local Authorities to Remove Vendors From Undesignated Selling Points Within 48 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Government has given all local authorities 48 hours to clear illegal vendors, saying they have created a haven for criminal activities and operate in unsanitary conditions, posing health risks to citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In the past, there have been a number of failed attempts to clear illegal vendors from the central business districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Addressing journalists in Harare, Wednesday, Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe said the illegal vendors operate in unsanitary conditions, posing a risk to public health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130175.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>Government has given all local authorities 48 hours to clear illegal vendors, saying they have created a haven for criminal activities and operate in unsanitary conditions, posing health risks to citizens. In the past, there have been a number of failed attempts to clear illegal vendors from the central business districts. Addressing journalists in Harare, [&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":[258,256,7215,4357,9088,7823,257,6186,7508,11893,11904,254,50856,9485,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-govt","tag-hours","tag-local","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-points","tag-remove","tag-selling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-undesignated","tag-vendors","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193484","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=193484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193484\/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=193484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}