The Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Felix Mhona has announced new driver’s licence fees.
In terms of Statutory Instrument 158 of 2022, published recently, new drivers will pay between US$15 and US$30, up from ZWL$1 000. Said Mhona:
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).
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).