Commissioner Chihuri please root out your corrupt details that have messed up our roads. We now know them as uniformed criminals. What about drunken driving Mr Minister? What have you done about it? One can be driving a 2011 Merc but drunk, what help will your reflective triangles be? Will it matter if he is driving a left had or right hand vehicle?
How can you justify a ban on second hand vehicle imports when WMMI cannot
produce enough for the market? How many vehicles does RSA produce per month, do we produce even a quarter of that per year? The other thing is Zimbabwe has no plant which manufactures bicycles, and yet you want to ban car imports.
I think it would be proper first to setup a system where local motor industry becomes effectively and efficiently functioning just like in our neighbour South Africa. The general populace should be able to "cheaply" access locally manufactured or assembled vehicles through flexible instalments.
We simply can’t afford the Mazda 3 or the BT50 from Willowvale. Hindava musingadi punduko yevamwe? Those second hand cars from Japan are way better than some unroadworthy vehicles plentiful on the road.
Did the Minister of Environment carry out a research to determine the extent to which these 'more than 5 year old vehicles' pollute the environment?
If the government with all its resources can’t afford to buy new planes how can an ordinary man earning US$250 a month afford a new car assembled locally at Willovale or an imported car that is less than 5 years old? This measure is stupid to say the least, if our economy and industries start performing well as it was in the 1980`s then yes, the ban would have been good, but not in the current state of affairs.
If Ford or everyone else considers our market important they will establish an assembly plant in Zimbabwe and that is what we want. Let’s devise ways of attracting car manufacturers and assemblers to our country. – WISEMAN OF THE EAST, by e-mail
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