Nine street vendors have been remanded in custody after allegedly throwing stones at Harare municipal police officers during Operation Chenesai Guta.

Media expert Simbarashe Namusi critiques Zimbabwe’s cyclical urban clean-up campaigns, arguing that displacing vendors like Mai Chiedza treats symptoms rather than structural economic issues.

Despite a strict warning from municipal authorities to vacate street pavements by September 9, informal traders in Harare’s Central Business District (CBD) remain unfazed, setting up stall spaces as usual and vowing to resist relocation.

Police are investigating after an unidentified man was found dead along First Street near Kuwana House in central Harare on Friday morning.

The regulators know all this. Circulars get issued. Licenses get revoked. Blitzes get announced with the appropriate stern language about the full force of the law. Doc is back at the corner the following week, because enforcement without alternative is just a temporary interruption of an economic necessity, the same way the illegal bus terminus behind him reopens within hours of every council crackdown.

The City of Harare has apologised after a woman's car was clamped while she was rushing her sick five-year-old son to hospital, with Mayor Jacob Mafume ordering an investigation into the incident.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned mourners against parading coffins in city centres or carrying them on top of vehicles, saying the practice endangers public safety and violates the law.

Twenty people were arrested in Harare's city centre during a joint anti-littering operation involving Harare City Council, EMA and the police as authorities intensify efforts to improve sanitation and environmental cleanliness.