{"id":46838,"date":"2021-09-18T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=46838"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:05:37","slug":"tobacco-firm-fails-to-pay-transporters-cites-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tobacco-firm-fails-to-pay-transporters-cites-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco Firm Fails To Pay Transporters, Cites \u2018COVID-19\u2019"},"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>A group of transporters on Monday reportedly staged a protest at Voedsel Tobacco International premises in Marondera demanding to be paid for their services.<\/p>\n<p>The transporters were contracted by the company to ferry tobacco for contracted farmers to the auction floors with the company undertaking to pay them after deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>An insider told NewZimbabwe.com that the transporters are disgruntled over late payments hence the flash protest. Said the source:<\/p>\n<p>A group of transporters was demanding their money. They left after rumours anti-riot police were coming.<\/p>\n<p>In Mashonaland East, Voedsel Tobacco International has contract farmers in areas like Wedza, Macheke, Marondera, and Goromonzi.<\/p>\n<p>The tobacco firm has been struggling to pay even its farmers this season with officials reportedly blaming the novel coronavirus for affecting operations.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by the publication to get a comment from both the company\u2019s spokesperson Tennyson Hwandi and director Innocent Mahufe were fruitless as their mobile phones were off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. A group of transporters on Monday reportedly staged a protest at Voedsel Tobacco International premises in Marondera demanding to be paid for their services. The transporters were contracted by the company to ferry tobacco for contracted farmers to the auction floors with the company undertaking to pay them after deliveries. An insider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,711,604,6371,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-46838","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-marondera","14":"tag-tobacco","15":"tag-voedsel-tobacco-international","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Tobacco Firm Fails To Pay Transporters, Cites \u2018COVID-19\u2019 - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A group of transporters on Monday reportedly staged a protest at Voedsel Tobacco International premises in Marondera dem ...\" \/>\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\/tobacco-firm-fails-to-pay-transporters-cites-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tobacco Firm Fails To Pay Transporters, Cites \u2018COVID-19\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A group of transporters on Monday reportedly staged a protest at Voedsel Tobacco International premises in Marondera dem ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tobacco-firm-fails-to-pay-transporters-cites-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-18T15:55:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-18T15:05:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/09\/img-614600282f399.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"530\" \/>\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\/tobacco-firm-fails-to-pay-transporters-cites-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tobacco-firm-fails-to-pay-transporters-cites-covid-19\",\"name\":\"Tobacco Firm Fails To Pay Transporters, Cites \u2018COVID-19\u2019 - 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