Antonnate Mugodi.
Harare, Zimbabwe (News of The South) – Present-day Zimbabwe has led the young citizens and also some jobless men and women into doing a series of crime. Many have resorted to the streets because they are not able to get shelter for themselves.
Quite a number of youngsters are now living on the streets of the Capital city Harare and that has been causing a lot of problems for a lot of people that will be doing their businesses in town.
It has now become a habit for the children that stay in the streets to harass people for money or food or anything that they see them holding. One ends up feeling sorry for the children and end up giving them what they will be holding and if they fail to do that the children snatch it from you or end up harassing you.
Walking around the streets alone has become very dangerous because you do not know which kind of trouble awaits you on every corner. Some of these children on the streets have now drifted to drug abuse so as to pass their time only.
Knocking off late at work has now resorted to being a problem because people are getting mugged a lot at night, even for students who finish school late it has now been a threat to their possessions and even their lives to get home late.
In many residential areas messages have been passed around for people to be careful because there have been people who have been spotted to have had been chasing people for their possessions.
The rate at which robberies in houses has been happening has drastically increased because people have resorted to stealing in order for them to sustain themselves and even their families.
Security wise it can be noted that current economic situation has failed Zimbabwean citizens as it has threatened their safety as the rate of crime thus robberies has increased due to scarcity of resources and lack of income for some.
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