DEALING WITH VENDORSGOVERNMENT must find a way to accommodate street vendors, especially in Lusaka, and not regard them as a social menace. Any heavy handed approach to remove them will not work and will be a recipe for disaster.Street vendors are sharp businessmen and women whose conventional attitude to business defies logic.They have long realised that there is more profit to be made by trading on the streets than being restricted to a designated market.The streets are where customers are found, those men and women who commute from the various residential areas to their work places, passing through the city centre.These do not have time to walk to a market to buy vegetables and other necessities. The vendors bring the items to the streets to ease their burden.Local Government and Rural Development, Garry Nkombo has stirred a hornet’s nest, with his recent directive that all street vendors in Lusaka must move to designated markets.From the […]