Car dealers connive with the disabled

MUTARE — Automatic vehicles have flooded the country’s car industry, with car dealers reportedly striking deals with disabled people to import the now-popular vehicles.

Disabled people import goods into the country duty-free on humanitarian grounds.

In a snap survey in the border town of Mutare, NewsDay established that most dealers have resorted to “employing” disabled people in a ploy to evade customs duty on second-hand vehicles imported from South Africa.

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