Cross Border Traders Threaten To Shut All Zim Borders
30 March 2018
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Statement | Attention to all travellers and Cross-Border Traders!!!

This serves to notify travellers that on the 16th and 17th of April 2018 all borders to and from Zimbabwe shall be disrupted by protests. The International Cross-Border Traders Association advises cross-border traders, truck drivers, bus drivers, taxi drivers,clearing agents, travellers and cross-border traders to heed our call.
Our demands to the government of Zimbabwe are as follows:

(1)Buses and any other travellers using the border must be searched once at the border. No to research with intention of getting bribes from drivers by officials. (not to be searched by ZIMRA,Border Control and CIDs, one after the other). This process causes corruption.

(2) Zimra and Border Control at Mwenezi, 129km from Beitbridge border post should stop researching travellers who have documents showing that they have been searched already at Beitbridge border post. (This fuels corruption as well as failure by bus drivers to comply to timetable sheet issued by the government. In some cases leads to accidents as drivers will have to speed so as to compensate time lost to delays)

(3) Statutory Instrument Number 64 of 2016:
We demand the abolishment of the SI64 of 2016 which prohibits the importation of basic commodities that are even not on shelves in Zimbabwean shops. If Zimbabwe is open for business as said by the President, allow Zimbabweans to import any goods of their choice or groceries for personal consumption.

(4) Diaspora Vote: The government of Zimbabwe should allow all it’s citizens outside Zimbabwe to vote from the countries where they are residing as per 2013 constitution.

As the International Cross-Border Traders Association(ICTA) we advise all travellers to avoid Zimbabwean borders for their convenience.

Best regards
Denis Juru
ICTA President

WhatsApp: +27 623 966 158
Phone: +27 110 567 721
Email:[email protected]
www.ictacrossborder.com