As we celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day under the theme Count her in: Invest in Women Accelerate progress, we are sending heartfelt wishes to all the exceptional women informal economy workers (IEW) the world over. We stand in solidarity with you as we strive for a future where all…

Goromonzi horticultural farmers say mining activities being undertaken by Platinum Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) has brought significant disruption to their daily lives. This emerged during a listening meeting conducted by Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) at Yafeli Village, Ward 17 Goromonzi District. Small-scale horticultural farmers said the district…

On February 16, 2024, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) held a meeting with representatives from the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC). The purpose of the meeting was to identify stakeholders who would be part in the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) working group. The ZHRC is…

At a time, the nation is still reeling from the new tax regimes that are a product of the 2024 national budget presentation, more misery was in store, with the gazetting of the new toll fees, AND the clandestine addition of a new tollgate just before Chivhu and another one…

As the nation starts getting back to business, we are confronted with the gazetting of tax proposals as contained in the national budget that was hastily passed by Parliament in December 2023. These measures, as we previously stated in our response (https://visetonline.org/viset-statement-on-the-2023-budget/ ) are an attack on the ordinary Zimbabwean’s…