In Zimbabwe, police torched dwellings in a poor squatter camp overnight and deployed more than 3,000 officers Friday to "monitor" the destruction of informal settlements around the capital, Harare. Residents rioted Thursday night in at least one township on the southern edge of the city as police arrested street vendors and burned their kiosks. VOA's Delia Robertson in Johannesburg spoke with a Zimbabwean print journalist - who asked to remain anonymous - about what he saw.
Q: There have been reports of unrest and also of people whose homes have been destroyed, informal dwellings, street traders whose goods have been confiscated, of many people being arrested, in Harare alone over 10,000, what is the current situation of this crackdown of street traders and people living in informal dwellings?
A: Well the crackdown against traders, who by the way are not street , but are people who are operating from legally licensed places, has intensified and spread to a crackdown on people living in so-called informal housing or illegal houses, and late last night water tanks of the police drove into an area called Harare South and razed down their houses.
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