Govt to Ban Gonyet Businesses to Boost NRZ
22 July 2016
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Gonyet ban...Minister Joram Gumbo
Gonyet ban…Minister Joram Gumbo

Gonyet (bulk transportation vehicle) businesses have become the mainstay of many unemployed Zimbabweans following the crashing down of the economy. From banning the import of domestic vitals which saw the Beitbridge border post being burnt down, government has embarked on another move which will see Gonyet company owners and their employees being arrested if found trading.

Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joram Gumbo on Wednesday said government will revive struggling National Railways of Zimbabwe by outlawing bulk transportation of goods by road.
“That is the way to go and (banning bulk transportation of goods by road) is what we are planning to do because if we allow big trucks to ply our roads, they will actually destroy them and there would be continuous rehabilitation of the roads. It is something that we are considering,” Gumbo said at the inaugural infrastructure development conference held in Bulawayo alongside the Mining, Engineering and Transport Expo (MineEntra).
He was responding to a question by chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development and Chegutu West legislator, Dexter Nduna, who wanted to find out what the government was going to revive the NRZ.
The ban would be through a statutory instrument (SI), Gumbo said.
“We will not be the first ones to do that,” he said.
The SI would be good news to the struggling NRZ, which has been incapacitated due to lack of business, a situation which arose due to the parastatal’spoor reliability.
Recently, it slashed salaries by up to 50 percent as it continues to face viability challenges amid declining business volumes and charges of mismanagement.
A report by the Auditor General on NRZ’s 2014 accounts showed that its freight unit was generating annual revenue of $91,2 million, but incurring costs of $103 million. The passenger unit had annual revenues of $3,2 million, with costs over three times more at $10,9 million. – The Source

9 Replies to “Govt to Ban Gonyet Businesses to Boost NRZ”

  1. Combies will be next for banning to revive zupco, then generators for zesa, bore holes for Zinwa, private abotoirs for csc, municipalities already lost the right to licence vehicles to Zinara….. When are we going to learn that governments’ business is to make policy and collect taxes?

  2. Combies will be next for banning to revive zupco, then generators for zesa, bore holes for Zinwa, private abotoirs for csc, municipalities already lost the right to licence vehicles to Zinara….. When are we going to learn that governments’ business is to make policy and collect taxes?

  3. Ndiko kuzungaira. Ndiko kuti economy maitadza. Ndiko kuti hamuvaki asi muno wondonga nyika. Magonyti ngaabve kuti train iite mari. Musa impota chikafu kuita kuti mutenge zvinogaDzirwa muno. Hamugashiri US Dollars kuti mushandi she mabondi notsi.
    Kupisha kuri pachena.
    Makapusa. Mwese, hapana uri nani. Chiendayi.
    Hatidi madhokonono emurikutiitira aya. Taramba.
    Chasara kuti ana kudya nekupfeka. Dai mweya wekufema waichengetwa ngehurumende, tingadai takapere kufuhuka ngekunyimwe mweya.

  4. Mucha banner kusvika riini. It started a long time ago. Short wave radio ban. Satelite dish ban. Protests ban. Private media ban. (some bombed in the process). Import ban. Private gatherings ban. Kkkkkkkkk. Social media looking at ways to Ban it as well.
    Ironically to get your banning messages across you use the banned channels.
    Inonzi 21St century ino vanhu woye. You can ban as long as you like. But its here to stay.
    It will be better you act on deliverables like BANNING corruption. Look East. Corruption there is a straight jacket to death.
    Haikona zvenyu izvi zvemat#zvi.

  5. Zanu Pf murimbwa dzemuroad, imbwa mipengo. You think NRZ can serve the whole country. With those old coal engines in 21st century. Mari muchingoba at every opportunity. Imi kuita zvimatumbu povo ichifa nenzara.

  6. Zanu Pf murimbwa dzemuroad, imbwa mipengo. You think NRZ can serve the whole country. With those old coal engines in 21st century. Mari muchingoba at every opportunity. Imi kuita zvimatumbu povo ichifa nenzara.

  7. Iyo NRZ yacho haichava NRZ yakare. Moving goods between cities can take weeks if not months

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