“When the elections are over I am left to deal with all the mess,” said one caretaker who only wanted to be identified as Trevor.
Throughout the year, he deals with posters advertising music shows and church conferences, however, political campaigning is different.
“It’s easy to deal with those for music shows because if they put the posters up overnight, I can always pull them down the next morning. I play cat and mouse with them. Political posters are a different matter because I am scared that if they come back and find their posters gone, it would mean trouble,” Trevor said.
Some of the caretakers have put notices up on their walls warning people not to put up posters.
“This works, although, there are always people who want to test me or ignore the warning,” said a caretaker at a property housing office.
City of Harare spokesman, Lesley Gwindi, said council employees were under instruction from the authorities to pull down all posters.
“We have told people to desist from putting posters up because it’s an eyesore,” Gwindi said.
He added that it was illegal to put posters on other people’s property.
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