By MUBANGA LUCHEMBE FOR decades, street vending and trading has been a flourishing informal business sector in Zambia more especially in big towns – albeit previous and current administrations have allowed this informal activity to take root and become a political matter to end. Evidently though, a few days ago, the Minister of Local Government Garry Nkombo caused a public stir and debate when he told vendors on the streets of Lusaka that he did not come to: ìnegotiate with them but to tell them to vacate the streets with immediate effect.îAs expected, opposition and other civic leaders took to the mainstream and social media platforms to air their views for or against the removal of street vendors from the streets of Lusaka or Zambia in general citing previous governments of UNIP, MMD and PF as having tried but failed. That raises the question: How comfortably does the rise of street vending sit with the newly-elected UPND government?Clearly […]
ZAMBIA’S STREET VENDING AND THE UPND ADMINISTRATION
