Mnangagwa launches new payment system for revived Zupco

By Staff reporterw | 16 Apr 2019 at 22:13hrs
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday launched a locally developed payment system for revived public transport operator Zupco, after commissioning 24 buses in Harare.

The 24 buses supplied by FAW Zimbabwe, are part of a consignment of 500 buses acquired in South Africa and Europe to ease urban transport problems and to ease the urban transport problems cushion commuters against unfair hikes by private operators.

"The era of stealing from government is over, we had been having challenges at CMED were our vehicles were constantly being abused by civil servants but this system will end all that.

"It's a tap and go system which has a fuel consumption monitoring and bus tracking system as well as  an automated route allocation system," said Mnangagwa.

"With this system we will flush out that behavior of filling fuel and draining it for resell on the black market synonymous with pirate operators."

The system was developed by Chinhoyi University of Technology graduate Talon Garikai who is based at the Harare Institute of Technology.

Mnangagwa warned the net is closing in on those who abused public resources.

"The past is the past, come on board and safeguard your jobs otherwise you will belong to the past," said the President.

The 24 buses consist of 19, 64 seaters and five 30 seater minibuses.

According to Zupco acting chief executive officer Evaristo Madangwa the public bus operator now has 261 buses operating in five of the country's major cities.

In January Mnangagwa signed a memorandum of understanding with Belarus for the supply of 300 buses which he said will be in the country soon.

Some 200 have been sourced from South Africa but are yet to be delivered amid criticism that Mnangagwa's "so called mega-deals" are nothing but "hot-air".

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