A sociedade dos angariadores: uma reflexão sobre o transporte semi-colectivo de passageiro na Cidade de Maputo 2004-07

Abstract

In this reflection on semi-collective passenger transport in Maputo City, we propose to understand why even with the knowledge that the daily activities of collectors are illegal, it does not develop in the owners of semi-collective passengers resistance to their impositions, which range from “the introduction of a second license for semi-collective vehicles licensed by the Municipal Council, compliance with loading scales and even queues for loading passengers. ” The centrality of the study of the resignation of transporters to recruiters as an explanatory point of this work is linked to the fact that it is found that semi-collective passenger transporters are protected by the Government represented by the Municipal Council and the Association of Road Transport of Maputo, on the contrary passengers, collectors and other actors involved. We think that the transporters prefer to condone the arbitrariness of the recruiters at the joint terminal because they benefit from these practices, let's see: The transport of passengers in vehicles in an advanced state of degradation; arbitrary increase in ticket fares on holidays and long weekends; the safety of your passengers and vehicles is only possible under the protection of the collectors.