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The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO), which now is now part of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, called Mutapa Investment Fund, an alleged shadowy launchpad for large scale looting of Zimbabwe’s natural resources and economic wealth, will this year take delivery of 550 buses that were allegedly procured under dubious circumstances involving the floating of tender procedures, Nehanda Radio can exclusively reveal.
Dynamos have announced a partnership deal with the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company [ZUPCO] for a special travel package that will see the parastatal ferrying the club’s supporters at a subsidised fare of US$2 to and from their designated pick up points.
Arundel Hospital is reportedly failing to pay health workers claiming that its principal sponsor Sakunda Holdings owned by businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei is being crunched by sanctions.
The latest development comes as 100 new buses acquired by the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company are set to arrive in Durban on Thursday enroute to Harare.
Zimbabweans are worried by a decision made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to partner the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) with colonial-era National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) locomotives that were decommissioned long back.
Commuters in Bulawayo were yesterday stranded as there was a shortage of transport after Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) kombi drivers staged a sit-in over two months’ salary arrears.
Scores of pupils were yesterday left stranded at roadsides as police in Bulawayo impounded vehicles that were pirating in defiance of the Government’s travel regulations meant to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Rowdy pirate kombi drivers ganged up with some rogue elements and attacked traffic police officers before smashing the rear windscreen of their patrol vehicle and stealing a car battery which was in the boot.
Pirating commuter omnibuses are back on the streets in Bulawayo taking advantage of reduced police roadblocks after Government eased lockdown regulations at the beginning of this month.
Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has started charging fares in foreign currency alongside local currency, but passengers have decried the disregard for official exchange rates.