Opinion / Columnist
Beitbridge border post turned into Shona mafia criminal underworld
25 Feb 2016 at 16:41hrs | Views
Mthwakazi Republic Party is reliably informed that, there is a lot of corruption taking place at Beitbridge Border Post. ZIMRA Officials working with ZRP, Private Security guards, Touts and the Immigration Officials are fleecing our people their hard earned money.
We are also informed that VID is also involved in the corruption schemes at the Border Post as well as along the road from the Post to Bulawayo.
Our members who are involved in Cross border transport business are complaining that these culprits are taking away a lot of money forcing them out of business. We are reliably informed that traders are forced to carry between R5 000-00 to R10 000-00 for bribes at the Post and for toll gates from SA to Bulawayo. These amounts exclude salaries for their workers, duty fees and many other expenses that they incur to get by and make a living.
This is the breakdown of the bribe charges at the border post for cross border transport operators. As soon as transporters enter the Zimbabwean side from South Africa, they are required to buy:
1. what is called Manifesto from touts around the Border for R20-00
2. Pay R100 to private security guards employed at the Border for them to open the bay for one's vehicle to enter the Post so that you are searched.
3. Paying touts for CIDs a minimum of R1000-00 so that they facilitate one's vehicle to be searched by ZIMRA failure of which one can spend the whole day without being attended to.
4. A few meters from the searching bay there are CID officials who demand R300-00 from every car that passes them failure of which one is told to off load one's trailer. After that one is required by law to go to the CID office at the Border where one is required to produce all the papers of one's vehicle, so they check whether one's vehicle is a stolen one or not. If one's papers are in order one is instructed to see private security guards outside before the signing of any paperwork.
The private security guards then demand for a payment of R50-00 before a code is given and being asked to go back to the office to collect papers. The reason why people are asked to go outside the offices is primarily to avoid bribes being exchanged in the offices as offices have cameras. The code given by guards is confirmation of payment of a bribe.
Before one reaches the last gate to come out of the Border there are ZIMRA officials who demand a payment of R1000 for a pass called a Gate Pass, failure of which there is a threat to offload one's trailer again.
At the last gate the VID await to charge $50-00 bribe to avoid being taken to a VID depot, where usually one required to pay more.
The Immigration officials who work with the police demand R300-00 bribe from every one without a passport. A hundred meters from the Border post gate there is a ZR Police traffic road block where one is required to pay a R100-00 bribe failure of which one risks being issued with many unreasonable fine tickets as punishment for failure or refusal to pay a bribe.
From Beitbridge Border Post to Bulawayo it's about 320 kilometers, and it's supposed to be a four hour long journey. Omalayistha end up spending between 12 to 13 hours because of roadblocks.
There is a minimum of 13 road blocks on that road including Gwanda and Bulawayo VID inspectors.
At every road block one is required to pay a bribe of a minimum of R50-00 and VID charge exorbitant bribes of between $20-00 and $50-00 or else one's vehicle will be required to go to the depot or be impounded.
Lastly but not least as MRP we are worried and we view this as the implementation of the ZANU PF Satanic 1979 Grand Plan making sure that there is no one from Mthwakazi who must prosper.
All the said corrupt people manning these important public offices are all Shona and they do these corrupt activities against Mthwakazi people. We therefore encourage all Omalayistha owners, drivers and everyone concerned to demonstrate against this corruption and resist wicked, oppressive and exploitative system.
The minister responsible of ZIMRA must make take urgent action to investigate this corruption and root it out.
The ZRP Police based at the nearby police station are also accused of coming to Border when they are off duty to help ZIMRA officials in the self-enriching corrupt schemes.
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN OUR LIFE TIME
Mbonisi Gumbo MRP Secretary For Information and Publicity
Contact us on: mrpselfdetermination@gmail.com
We are also informed that VID is also involved in the corruption schemes at the Border Post as well as along the road from the Post to Bulawayo.
Our members who are involved in Cross border transport business are complaining that these culprits are taking away a lot of money forcing them out of business. We are reliably informed that traders are forced to carry between R5 000-00 to R10 000-00 for bribes at the Post and for toll gates from SA to Bulawayo. These amounts exclude salaries for their workers, duty fees and many other expenses that they incur to get by and make a living.
This is the breakdown of the bribe charges at the border post for cross border transport operators. As soon as transporters enter the Zimbabwean side from South Africa, they are required to buy:
1. what is called Manifesto from touts around the Border for R20-00
2. Pay R100 to private security guards employed at the Border for them to open the bay for one's vehicle to enter the Post so that you are searched.
3. Paying touts for CIDs a minimum of R1000-00 so that they facilitate one's vehicle to be searched by ZIMRA failure of which one can spend the whole day without being attended to.
4. A few meters from the searching bay there are CID officials who demand R300-00 from every car that passes them failure of which one is told to off load one's trailer. After that one is required by law to go to the CID office at the Border where one is required to produce all the papers of one's vehicle, so they check whether one's vehicle is a stolen one or not. If one's papers are in order one is instructed to see private security guards outside before the signing of any paperwork.
The private security guards then demand for a payment of R50-00 before a code is given and being asked to go back to the office to collect papers. The reason why people are asked to go outside the offices is primarily to avoid bribes being exchanged in the offices as offices have cameras. The code given by guards is confirmation of payment of a bribe.
Before one reaches the last gate to come out of the Border there are ZIMRA officials who demand a payment of R1000 for a pass called a Gate Pass, failure of which there is a threat to offload one's trailer again.
The Immigration officials who work with the police demand R300-00 bribe from every one without a passport. A hundred meters from the Border post gate there is a ZR Police traffic road block where one is required to pay a R100-00 bribe failure of which one risks being issued with many unreasonable fine tickets as punishment for failure or refusal to pay a bribe.
From Beitbridge Border Post to Bulawayo it's about 320 kilometers, and it's supposed to be a four hour long journey. Omalayistha end up spending between 12 to 13 hours because of roadblocks.
There is a minimum of 13 road blocks on that road including Gwanda and Bulawayo VID inspectors.
At every road block one is required to pay a bribe of a minimum of R50-00 and VID charge exorbitant bribes of between $20-00 and $50-00 or else one's vehicle will be required to go to the depot or be impounded.
Lastly but not least as MRP we are worried and we view this as the implementation of the ZANU PF Satanic 1979 Grand Plan making sure that there is no one from Mthwakazi who must prosper.
All the said corrupt people manning these important public offices are all Shona and they do these corrupt activities against Mthwakazi people. We therefore encourage all Omalayistha owners, drivers and everyone concerned to demonstrate against this corruption and resist wicked, oppressive and exploitative system.
The minister responsible of ZIMRA must make take urgent action to investigate this corruption and root it out.
The ZRP Police based at the nearby police station are also accused of coming to Border when they are off duty to help ZIMRA officials in the self-enriching corrupt schemes.
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN OUR LIFE TIME
Mbonisi Gumbo MRP Secretary For Information and Publicity
Contact us on: mrpselfdetermination@gmail.com
Source - MRP
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