More transport chaos in Maputo
More transport chaos in Maputo
And: Who are the Naparama?
Good afternoon. The floods in Maputo may have subsided, but people going to work today faced another challenge: transport chaos thanks to a hike in minibus, or ‘chapa’, prices.
Many travellers simply refused to pay the new prices, which have risen by 3 meticais across the board. It led to a huge rise in demand for the big buses run by the municipality, which had not raised their prices.
The approval of the price rise came over the weekend after chapa operators did not manage to reach agreement with the government over subsidies. The government wants to provide subsidies to individual travellers, but does not have the technology to do so; and it can’t or won’t provide subsidies to the majority of chapa operators who are not legally registered.
It’s a long-running problem that shows little sign of going away, in Maputo or in other major cities around the country.
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The latest from Zitamar News:
Who are the Naparama?
A local militia called the Naparama emerged last year to fight insurgents in Cabo Delgado, rooted in an infamous predecessor of the same name, which formed in the late 1980s to fight on the Frelimo side of the Mozambican civil war
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