{"id":233311,"date":"2026-05-15T04:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-defends-transport-liberalisation-amid-urban-commuter-woes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:27:59","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-defends-transport-liberalisation-amid-urban-commuter-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-defends-transport-liberalisation-amid-urban-commuter-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Defends Transport Liberalisation Amid Urban Commuter Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Government has defended Zimbabwe&#8217;s liberalised transport system, arguing that private operators must continue bridging commuter transport gaps in urban centres despite concerns over growing transport shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The issue came under scrutiny in the National Assembly after Lobengula-Magwegwe legislator Tendai Nyathi questioned what measures were being taken to ease transport challenges in major cities, including Harare, Bulawayo and Gweru where commuters say the state-run ZUPCO bus fleet is no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605140341.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has defended Zimbabwe&#8217;s liberalised transport system, arguing that private operators must continue bridging commuter transport gaps in urban centres despite concerns over growing transport shortages. The issue came under scrutiny in the National Assembly after Lobengula-Magwegwe legislator Tendai Nyathi questioned what measures were being taken to ease transport challenges in major cities, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,34442,7820,4357,29411,257,254,8343,8010,9855,4686,421],"class_list":["post-233311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commuter","tag-defends","tag-govt","tag-liberalisation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transport","tag-urban","tag-woes","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}