JOHANNESBURG The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is, before the end of this month, set to receive part of the over R2 million worth of rail rehabilitation equipment it ordered from a South African manufacturer. (Pictured: National Railways of Zimbabwe is in dire need of rehabilitation.)
A company executive from Permatool, which mainly manufactures railway equipment and supplies, revealed during an exclusive interview with this newspaper at last weeks Nepad Transport and Infrastructure summit that the Zimbabwean parastatal ordered equipment worth R2.4 million, part of which has already been paid for.
The NRZ is one of many Zimbabwean parastatals that has been left bruised by President Robert Mugabes militarization of public enterprises. An economic rot that has bedevilled Zimbabwe for the better part of the past decade has also reduced the state enterprise to a dump yard of obsolete equipment, which now needs serious rehabilitation.
The NRZ has not been able to get equipment for a while, but with Zimbabwe having such mining produces like coal, they need working railways, said Sandile Gwamanda, Permatools Managing Director.
In a bid to get new construction and maintenance equipment, the NRZ went out on tender and eventually placed an order with us last year. They have since paid for about half of the equipment they ordered from us and it is now ready to be delivered to them.
I think that by the end of this month, part of the equipment would have gone, but I do not know what administration problems they could be having.
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It would be nice if this report actually mentioned what the equipment was as this was not clear.