Beitbridge Border Post Falls To Civil Unrest
20 June 2016
Staff Reporter| Frustrated and angry Zimbabweans Friday to early hours of Saturday morning lost their patience with the massive new regulations and corruption at the Beitbridge border temporarily closing the busy port of entry in a civil demonstration.
Sources at the border indicate that over three thousand people who were at the border entering into Zimbabwe couldn’t take kindly to Zimbabwe Revenue Authorities who were confiscating wares brought in mostly by cross border traders under new regulations that the goods were barred from being imported into the country.
The demonstrators forced border control authorities and police officers to flea into the offices for cover leaving the border a free for all entry.
Cross border traders and transporters some who had been at the border for over twenty four hours took advantage of the chaos to get through the border without clearances.
Several vehicles and hundreds of people made their way through the border post bringing down the perimeter fencing around the border post.
The government this week introduced several new regulations banning a range of goods from being imported into the country under regulations set up in 1974 in a bid to promote local industries.
The restricted goods are the range of goods that most informal traders bring in from South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zambia.
The situation at the border post is reported to be still tense with police and state security details reinforcements deployed to restore order at the country’s busiest port of entry.
Unconfirmed reports claim that the South African Home Affairs authorities have also temporarily closed their side of the border until the Zimbabwean side of the border is under control.
Zimeye.com has meantime despatched a team of correspondents to gather facts on the on goings at the border and will update as soon as more information is available.
Calls to the Department of Customs and Exercise at the border post are meanwhile not being answered as of this morning.
14 Replies to “Beitbridge Border Post Falls To Civil Unrest”
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you can not sort the economy by importing. these are the goods that are causing the cash crisis and causing us not to have jobs.
Taura hako hama yangu. Taneta isu!
Taura hako hama yangu. Taneta isu!
Promote which local industries besides giving business to the zanu thieves as they are the very ones who own those businesses nxa! They enjoy to see the povo suffering whilst enriching these thieves by the little income the povo are making nonsense! Enough is enough pamberi vana ve Zimbabwe!
Promote which local industries besides giving business to the zanu thieves as they are the very ones who own those businesses nxa! They enjoy to see the povo suffering whilst enriching these thieves by the little income the povo are making nonsense! Enough is enough pamberi vana ve Zimbabwe!
Aiwa tibvireipo, Enough is enough kudii kwacho? Chinguri chemakabvira muchimamirwa misoro ne Zanu Pf muchingoti “Hongu Mambo”. Take action and stop yepping on such forums Mazidofo evanhu
Aiwa tibvireipo, Enough is enough kudii kwacho? Chinguri chemakabvira muchimamirwa misoro ne Zanu Pf muchingoti “Hongu Mambo”. Take action and stop yepping on such forums Mazidofo evanhu
chakachaya zanu ichamama chete this is only the beggining of the end
Enough is enough. People cannot accept to imprisoned by a few ZANU PF thugs. All is death what is the difference
Enough is enough. People cannot accept to imprisoned by a few ZANU PF thugs. All is death what is the difference
“promote local industries.”
Market conditions should determine whether people buy locally made products or not. Manje zvazviri izvi could “promote local industries” engaged in importation of foreign goods; wochitema mitengo yepamusoro, pane kuti munhu azvitengere ega. Iyo nyaya yekuita “promote local industries” combined with the introduction of bond notes is tantamount to economic restriction yakafanana nekugara mujeri.
Kumanika vanhu kunga munomanike tsweko. Kudini ikoko. Vanhu vakaita musindo paBeit Bridge communicated how the nation ought to behave under the circumstances. Nguri mwakabvira kuisa mitemo yekusunga vanhu kunga shato yabata mhuka, muchazoguma zvaita sei?
Kune here mutemo umwe hawo wemwakatema after independence unoita vanhu vazwe kuti hondo yakarwirwe zviripo? Vairidza pfuti, murikushungurudza. Vaibikira varidzi vepfuti, murikushungurudza. Vaimutambidze masoko, murikushungurudza. Hapana hwayo. Zviro zvenyuzvi hazvina shwiro.
“promote local industries.”
Market conditions should determine whether people buy locally made products or not. Manje zvazviri izvi could “promote local industries” engaged in importation of foreign goods; wochitema mitengo yepamusoro, pane kuti munhu azvitengere ega. Iyo nyaya yekuita “promote local industries” combined with the introduction of bond notes is tantamount to economic restriction yakafanana nekugara mujeri.
Kumanika vanhu kunga munomanike tsweko. Kudini ikoko. Vanhu vakaita musindo paBeit Bridge communicated how the nation ought to behave under the circumstances. Nguri mwakabvira kuisa mitemo yekusunga vanhu kunga shato yabata mhuka, muchazoguma zvaita sei?
Kune here mutemo umwe hawo wemwakatema after independence unoita vanhu vazwe kuti hondo yakarwirwe zviripo? Vairidza pfuti, murikushungurudza. Vaibikira varidzi vepfuti, murikushungurudza. Vaimutambidze masoko, murikushungurudza. Hapana hwayo. Zviro zvenyuzvi hazvina shwiro.
These people are very cruel. Everything the ordinary Zimbo tries to earn a living out of, they deem it illegal, yet they can’t create jobs.
The ZANU PF thugs are playing with people’s emotions. They should know that time is up, and any instigation can trigger what they can not control. People are fed up and will not continue to be threatened by people they know can not harm a fly. Imagine a six men gang needed just to take one person, it means that if half the population stages a demonstration, it will be over in minutes. These ZANU PF thugs are just cowards. Time will tell and I have said that it is soon and very soon.