The government promised that there will be no increase in the semi-collective transport of passengers in the greater Maputo region, announcing also that it will continue to subsidize the "chapas" for a period of six more monthss.

The president of FEMATRO, Road Transport Federation of Mozambique, Castigo Nhamane, said that the buses will return to the streets of Maputo after the strike this Monday morning: "All the means that were paralyzed will return to operate and the State will take over the remainder that the operators would adjust. The passenger will continue to pay the current price and the State will assume that subsidy," Nhamane told DW Africa in an interview.

The president of the association said that the desire to increase the transport fare is from the beginning of this year and the proposal was an increase in the order of seven meticais because of the rise in fuel prices.

"The seven meticais today are already out of line with another increase in fuel prices, last Saturday," Castigo Nhamane points out. "However, today it didn't matter to talk about how much it was going to increase, because the State appeared to assume that we should continue to transport at the current rate - and on the rest the State will put a cushion," he explains.