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Transport woes affects industrial productivity

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Transport woes affects industrial productivity

Lerato Ndlovu

The unavailability of essential services has remained a key challenge due to the lack of adequate resources and transport in the country’s central business district and industries during the lockdown.

The key issue of a country’s sustainance lies on the availability of manpower and workers to run day to day operations, in the Zimbabwean context most workers have to travel daily from their hometowns.

Talking to this publication Nolsa Investments and Kalamari Investments stated that due to the distance that their employees have to travel to and fro and the variations in transport costs reporting for work has since become a challenge.

“The biggest challenge we are facing today is manpower, companies are now being forced to operate with a limited number of people or at times fail to work due to the absence of labour.

“The transport fares being charged by colleagues who have private transportation are too exorbitant to an extent that the salaries will not be meaningless to them for they have rent and utilities costs then families to fend for before thinking about transport costs.”

They said, “The Zupco buses are not enough to ferry everyone to their destination and it’s not always that they will be patrolling at times they will be having mechanical faults forcing the passengers to seek for alternative transport that will not be in their small budgets.”

Different people looking for transport to ferry them indicated their dissatisfaction with the way transport issues were being handled in the country and the silence being posed by the government.

“Coming to work is hectic daily, the government approved transport with reasonable fares can only ferry a few people at a time, and the worst thing is they provided a few buses in some places resulting in people delaying to come to work waiting for their card number to come to play,” one said.

“Our salaries or rather the economy is not permitting us to spend recklessly on the transport fares being charged by private motorists, the government should do something about this the earlier the better because we see a lot of companies putting tools down, due to failure to meet the expenses.”

Some University of Zimbabwe students showed their disgruntlement to the transport challenges they are facing on a daily basis worse of at a time where they should be ferrying easily so as to start their exams on time.

“This semester we are not sure of what we are going to produce, we barely have time for discussions because we will be rushing to get into town and catch cheaper transport to take us home, at times by the time we get to campus for exams we would be already tired from the waiting we do for buses to ferry us.

“Transport issues seemed to be tough when we had a lot of commuter omnibuses with mahwindi calling for us to go to school on the streets but now we realizing that we had a good life then as compared to now were we struggle to ferry due to limited transportation,” they said.

“By the time you get to campus you wont be sure if the exam has started or ended when you were standing on the queue, its too stressful than having to read for an exam.”

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