{"id":193615,"date":"2025-03-15T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-dont-target-poor-vendors-fix-broken-economy-first-zctu-tells-govt\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:10:11","slug":"zimbabwe-dont-target-poor-vendors-fix-broken-economy-first-zctu-tells-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-dont-target-poor-vendors-fix-broken-economy-first-zctu-tells-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Don&#8217;t Target Poor Vendors, Fix Broken Economy First &#8211; ZCTU Tells Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has implored the government to desist from targeting struggling vendors and instead direct such efforts to fixing the ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">On Wednesday, Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe ordered a ban on all vending activities across local authorities in what he described as a bid to contain waste management and illicit activities such as drug dealing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">But in a statement, Thursday, the ZCTU Acting Secretary General, Runesu Dzimiri, said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140119.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>THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has implored the government to desist from targeting struggling vendors and instead direct such efforts to fixing the ailing economy. On Wednesday, Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe ordered a ban on all vending activities across local authorities in what he described as a bid to [&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":[258,256,7710,7207,5762,8037,4357,257,8943,254,7594,7036,9485,17581,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-broken","tag-dont","tag-economy","tag-fix","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target","tag-tells","tag-vendors","tag-zctu","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193615","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=193615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193615\/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=193615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}