Africa-Press – Eswatini. Public transport owners may lose their businesses to government if shutdowns continue.
This was said by the Prime Minister (PM), Cleopas Sipho Dlamini, during a press conference at Cabinet Offices yesterday afternoon. Dlamini was responding to questions from this publication regarding government’s contingency plan to avoid the public transport shutdowns, which saw examinations, among other things, being postponed.
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Initially, Dlamini had highlighted in his Christmas and end-of-year statement that the Education sector had once again suffered due to social tensions in the country, with exams having to be shifted.“This has been very detrimental to the children, whose right to education is being infringed upon as a result of issues that do not concern them,” said Dlamini. The PM said currently, government was pleading with the public transport owners and workers to reprimand themselves from the conduct of parking their vehicles.
The PM said government was also calling upon every liSwati to play a role in avoiding such disturbances in the future, as it affected everyone. He said if the above failed, government was ready to avail transport to ferry people like it happened in the recent shutdown, which saw government bringing in its buses.
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The PM explained that government was always ready to implement similar mitigations whenever a need arose and such may be permanent if need be. He reiterated that if the shutdowns continued, government may be forced to look at other means to keep the public transport sector going.Dlamini added that government had certain transport sectors like Eswatini Railway that may be roped in to provide the service (public transport).
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