{"id":243725,"date":"2026-09-08T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-clean-up-not-a-war-on-vendors-or-homeowners-garwe\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:59:57","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-clean-up-not-a-war-on-vendors-or-homeowners-garwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-clean-up-not-a-war-on-vendors-or-homeowners-garwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Clean-Up Not a War On Vendors or Homeowners &#8211; Garwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has rejected claims that the government&#8217;s planned clean-up operation in Harare is targeting vendors, informal traders or homeowners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Garwe said the exercise was aimed at restoring order in the capital&#8217;s Central Business District (CBD), which he described as being in a state that was incompatible with the country&#8217;s ambitions of becoming an upper-middle-income economy by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;This situation is no longer acceptable and it is no longer business&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609080505.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has rejected claims that the government&#8217;s planned clean-up operation in Harare is targeting vendors, informal traders or homeowners. Garwe said the exercise was aimed at restoring order in the capital&#8217;s Central Business District (CBD), which he described as being in a state that was incompatible with the [&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":[258,256,8023,55385,500,20887,257,254,9485,6618,4686,421],"class_list":["post-243725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cleanup","tag-garwe","tag-harare","tag-homeowners","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vendors","tag-war","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243725","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=243725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243725\/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=243725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}