Zimbabwean Police Crackdown Threatens Rural Women's Livelihoods with E-Tricycle Confiscations

Zimbabwe. Last month, while carrying a customer and some groceries on her electric tricycle (three-wheeled vehicle) on a dusty and unpaved road in the eastern part of Zimbabwe, Dairis Mutamangira was arrested by traffic police.

Police officers demanded to see the tricycle's registration certificate and driver's license, but she had neither document. She tried to negotiate, but the police fined her 15 US dollars on the spot.