Feature: A day in the life of Harare vendors

THE early morning sunlight, soft and diffuse beats down on the already sweltering Copacabana bus terminus in downtown Harare.

Vongai Machache (36), a woman on whose face a story of resilience was etched, surveyed her remaining stock — mountains of ripe tomatoes and vegetables, their sweet scent competing with the acrid tang from Harare City Council (HCC) public toilets. Machache, like many other vendor in Harare, has a daily struggle to find a proper vending point and selling enough to survive and also finding a place to store her unsold wares overnight.

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