Natalie Nyathi
Voices continue to grow louder against the modus operandi of Bulawayo City’s parking management system that is managed by Tendy Three Investments( TTI) a build, operate and transfer framework that the South African Company is authorised to run for an initial six year period with option of an extension of up to four years.
Business man, politician and youth activist Mkhululi Mafusi has joined many residents who have threatened to sue the Bulawayo City Council(BCC) and TTI about the manner in which the new parking system is being implemented.
Mafusi has called on all motorists opposed to the TTI system to come together and fight it using all possible means that include legal and demonstrating.
“I experienced the wrath of this TTI system when l was clamped and charged of over parking yet it was not my fault because l was avoiding tree branches that were left to hang and occupy a fraction of the parking space. I didn’t have a choice but to encroach into the next parking bay”, Mafusi told this reporter.
“The parking fees are beyond many a motorists, yet those that are making money through it do not bother to improve parking spaces in the city”, he added.
The youthful business man and political activist also told Zim GBC News that when he confronted TTI about the matter , he was shocked to find the company’s offices jam packed with people in his predicament.
Some of these people he observed were foreign tourists, a situation that tarnishes the image of the city and country as a tourist destination.
Investigations by Zim GBC News uncovered that TTI parking space marshals are given targets, a situation that foresees them to go over board in the clamping of would be parking space offenders. However, the customer service department through their website denied that such a system of targets exists.