Minister, take a listen
I am not a comfort zone person so I am not going to sit back and just enjoy or act as if I don’t see anything wrong. Actually I am taking advice from Dewa Mavinga who said Zimbabweans need to stand up and say something. So here I am standing up. I would like the Minister of Transport to view me as an adviser and heavens knows we need a lot of us in this country. Who in this beautiful country advised what’s his name to buy a fleet of cars when the City of Harare lies in ruins? However my advice goes to the Transport Minister, not to the guy who has nice cars. I mean he doesn’t have his sole hope of going back home with a windi in a combi. I have left my 5 Rands, 50 cents or 3 trillion in over three combis in the last few weeks and I have had enough. Things were going well when the windis did not mind us, the people, having just the 17 notes of the 60 notes that make up 3 trillion. But yo after this high rate craze not only do the windis want the full 3 trillion; they don’t even have any form of change. Now my Minister take a listen; unless you have a plan to solve this dollar for two business, I have a solution. Why don’t you and your Ministry introduce a ticket system? Have people buy a week worth of transport tickets then the combi people can collect their money every end of day or month. That way I am just getting in and out of the combi hastle free. I don’t have to follow a perfect stranger so that we can split a dollar which never happens. I end up leaving the whole dollar with the other person because I cannot parade the streets of Harare when I am late for work. What pains me the most is that when you go to the windis asking for reimbursement they have conveniently forgotten you. I will not stand for this daylight robbery, so Minister do something. Hey whatever the pros and cons of this advice, you can deal with them until you have thought of a better idea. I have just suggested something you haven’t thought about.