New Driver’s Licence Fees Gazetted As Currency Dilemma Leaves Several Stranded At VID

Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona has set new driver’s licence fees that will see new drivers paying between US$15 and US$30.

In Statutory Instrument 158 of 2022, published on Friday, Mhona said: “A person applying in terms of section 8(2)(b) or (3) of the Act to an issuing officer for a tractor driver’s permit or duplicate tractor driver’s permit shall transmit with their application a fee of fifteen United States dollars (US$15,00).”

Mhona said those applying for learner’s licences will have to part with US$20.

“12 (2) The fee to be remitted to the Registrar by a farmer or miner or their manager or a registering officer in terms of section 8(5) of the Act, shall be a fee of fifteen United States dollars (US$15,00).”

“12 (4), a person applying in terms of section 10(1) of the Act to an examiner for a Certificate of Competency shall transmit (a) with their application a fee for testing the applicant in respect of a Certificate of Competency for (i) class 3 or 4 vehicles a fee of twenty-five United States dollars (US25,00); (ii) class 1, class 2 or class 5 vehicles a fee of thirty United States dollars (US$30,00),” Mhona added.

Meanwhile, scores of people seeking to sit for provisional driving licence tests at the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) in Eastlea, Harare, have been left stranded, as authorities claim that they have been ordered to stop taking booking payments over an ‘unresolved’ currency dilemma, NewsDay understands.

As at 8am VID cashiers were rejecting the local Zimbabwe currency, accepting only United States dollars. They stopped taking bookings an hour later after receiving a “directive from above.” NewsDay