Young male vendors flood Mutare streets

Young male vendors flood Mutare streets

Ray Bande Senior Reporter A DISTURBING rise in child vendors has been observed in Mutare’s Central Business District, where boys of primary school age—many lured from rural settlements and border areas in neighbouring Mozambique—are being exploited for little more than food and shelter. Investigations by The Manica Post over the past three weeks revealed that most of these youngsters have never enrolled in school and spend their days selling boi…