{"id":34203,"date":"2021-02-04T18:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=34203"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:08:07","slug":"zupco-starts-charging-fares-in-forex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-starts-charging-fares-in-forex","title":{"rendered":"ZUPCO Starts Charging Fares In Forex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>ZUPCO has reportedly started charging fares in foreign currency alongside RTGS Dollar for its urban routes, the Chronicle reports<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the parastatal was reportedly charging R5 or Dollar for 2 on the ZUPCO buses and $1 or R10 for the omnibuses yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>ZUPCO hiked their fares last month and commuters are now paying between ZWL $30 and $60 on urban routes.<\/p>\n<p>This means the bus company is effectively charging commuters who use the omnibuses $22 more than the stipulated fare if they use the RBZ exchange rate of $1 being equal to $82.<\/p>\n<p>The government is yet to comment on the development.<\/p>\n<p>More: Chronicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. ZUPCO has reportedly started charging fares in foreign currency alongside RTGS Dollar for its urban routes, the Chronicle reports According to the publication, the parastatal was reportedly charging R5 or Dollar for 2 on the ZUPCO buses and $1 or R10 for the omnibuses yesterday. ZUPCO hiked their fares last month and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,187,19,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-34203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-forex","14":"tag-zimbabwe","15":"tag-zupco"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ZUPCO Starts Charging Fares In Forex - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZUPCO has reportedly started charging fares in foreign currency alongside RTGS Dollar for its urban routes, the Chronicl ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-starts-charging-fares-in-forex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZUPCO Starts Charging Fares In Forex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZUPCO has reportedly started charging fares in foreign currency alongside RTGS Dollar for its urban routes, the Chronicl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-starts-charging-fares-in-forex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-04T16:08:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-04T13:08:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-601bf19bb9605.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"607\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-starts-charging-fares-in-forex\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zupco-starts-charging-fares-in-forex\",\"name\":\"ZUPCO Starts Charging Fares In Forex - 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