The Minister for Transport and Logistics, João Matlombe, expressed his dismay at the functioning of the Machinpanda border post in Manica, due to the poor provision of public services.

The reason is that employees there are forced to work in situations where the energy and water supply services do not live up to expectations.

Matlombe also noted the lack of public changing rooms, the deterioration of infrastructures such as gates and the virtual absence of IT resources to help with customs and migration work.

"The government has to intervene to make things better," he said, assuming that customs and migration officials "hide" the problems by "giving the impression that everything is fine".

"If I assume that the border is what it is, we'll finish the meeting and we won't have to talk about anything. But we're here, we can't work for hours because there's no power, which means they can't work," he said.

In this sense, he appealed to officials not to try to convey an image that is contrary to reality.

"We don't need to do that.... We can't discuss revenue if we're not working to produce revenue," he said.