Wheelbarrows and tiny trolleys are flooding Bulawayo's CBD as informal operators dodge a pushcart crackdown that kicked in not long ago.
Bulawayo's pushcart ban fallout
Bulawayo's pushcart ban fallout
- Statutory Instrument 220 of 2023 axed pushcarts downtown.
- Municipal cops patrol and grab banned equipment daily.
- Operators pivoted to wheelbarrows for lower-profile hauling.
- Fines for violations can escalate to jail time.
- Mthokozisi Ndlovu lost his cart to a seizure.
- His family's income led him to take on wheelbarrow work.
- Thabiso Moyo says deliveries got way slower.
- Moyo notes that informal workers adapted overnight to survive.
