International carriers on the Maputo-South Africa route are complaining of heavy losses due to the demonstrations that have taken place in the country, motivated by alleged fraudulent election results, Radio Moçambique reported this Sunday, 27 October .
According to the agency, three semi-collective passenger transport vehicles were vandalised while operating on the South Africa-Maputo route and there is currently little demand for road transport services.
According to Luís Mabunda, one of the managers of the Maputo-South Africa route, at the Junta Interprovincial and International Bus Terminal in Maputo city, during the acts of vandalism, some transporters were forced to hand over money as a condition for the circulation of the vehicles.
The source called for an end to the demonstrations, saying that they are slowing down the country’s economy.
Last week, presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane called for a two-day strike and ‘peaceful’ nationwide demonstrations in Mozambique that began on Thursday (24), the day the National Electoral Commission announced the results of the general elections.
‘We’re going to sacrifice two days of our lives so that we can all demonstrate. And we don’t need to inform the police or the municipality,’ announced Venâncio Mondlane.
The Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi, appealed not to turn ‘a tragedy, which was the barbaric murder of two compatriots, into a fuse to inflict more suffering on other compatriots’, in a speech in Maputo.
