that somebody may be carrying on the streets. This is simply theft. The situation remains
patently ridiculous, with 90% of people surviving for lack of any alternative in the informal
sector, yet this sector remaining criminalized by the state.
Photos 5 and 6: glimpses of Bulawayo’s informal sector, July 2010. These vendors all operate on
the run, ready to take off when police arrive to arrest them and confiscate their wares.
Photo 7: there are 18 governmentfunded, “Operation Garikai” houses in Hopley farm, Harare,
where 3,800 displaced live: windows and doors have been bricked up because there are no door
or window frames, and also no sewerage, water or electricity, five years after being built.
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