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- Complaint number
- NTB-000-344
- NTB Type
- 7.8. Consular and Immigration Issues
- Complaint
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South Africa trucks with Zimbabwean and Zambian drivers are being impounded and at times foreign drivers get fined by the South African Cross Border Transport Agency for not possessing South African Professional Driving Permits disregarding section 32(3) of the National Road Traffic Act (Act No. 93 of 1996) which stipulates that "any document , serving a purpose similar to that of a professional driving permit issued by a competent authority , be deemed to be a professional driving permit".
This has been a serious issue for many years and rears its head every now and then. ( - Status note
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South Africa reported that Zimbabwean driving a Zimbabwean registered vehicle only need to produce a credit card metal licence with a category for the Public drivers for heavy vehicles marked '2', endorsement of medical certificate and expiry date at the back of the licence.
Drivers driving a vehicle not registered in Zimbabwe should produce an A5 size white booklet type licence, International driving permit equivalent of a Proffessional Driving Permit in South Africa issued by Automobile association of Zimbabwe. An AA stamp indicating category for heavy vehicle will be displayed on the right handside of the document.
Zambian public drivers licences are similar to those of South Africa issued with a C1 to EC category of licences with endorsement (PrDP) .However the Zambian driving licences have 'P', which means passengers and 'G' indicating goods and th expiry date next to these categories
- Progress update note
- Policy or regulatory NTB
- No
- Location
- South Africa: Ministry of Transport (Government institution)
- Reporting Country or Region
- Zambia
- Country specific trade issue
- No
- Date of incident
- 2009-12-18
- Status
- Resolved
- Date of resolution
- 2011-01-07
- Product Description
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All products
- Total value
- 0
- Date reported
- 2009-12-18 00:00
- Modified
- 2011-01-07 11:08
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