Commerce informel : émeute à Ndola – 19 novembre 2011

Street vendors riot in Ndola

daily-mail.co.zm

By Nkweto Mfula

19 11 2011 STREET vendors in Ndola yesterday clashed with Police and council security personnel who attempted to remove them from trading on the streets.

This follows the elapse of the one-week ultimatum issued to traders by Ndola City Council (NCC) to stop conducting business on the streets.

Business came to a standstill on the southern part of town when most traders closed their shops for safety.
The angry vendors set tyres on fire on the roads and blocked passages with stones and logs on Chisokone Avenue and Blantyre road near Shoprite chain stores.

Police in the company of council workers patrolled the town to ensure that no property was damaged by the street vendors, who also resorted to stoning state security.

Motorists in town panicked and had to use alternative roads for their safety.

Police fired teargas canisters to disperse the angry vendors, who kept regrouping to block other roads. Read more …