The Sunday Mail
Online Reporter
GOVERNMENT has suspended the operating licences of Rimbi and Zebra Kiss buses from operating all routes across the country.
The two bus operators are understood to be responsible for a fatal road traffic accident on Wednesday in Mutoko, along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway.
In a statement on Thursday, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona said the suspension is with immediate effect, pending corrective measures by the two operators.
“Informed by the foregoing violations and verified videographic circumstances, the Commissioner of Road Transport, after informing the two operators of his intention, and after the operators were given a reasonable opportunity to make representations on the matter in terms of Section 17 (2) of the Road Motor Transportation Act [Chapter 13:15], invoked provisions of Section 17 (1) (b) (i) of the same Act and suspended the licences of Rimbi Travel and Tours and Tashllyt Investments trading as Zebra Kiss from operating all its omnibuses in all the routes as authorised by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development,” reads the statement.
Minister Mhona said the suspension is with immediate effect, pending corrective measures by the two operators to ensure that they are in a position to resume operations without breach of the terms and conditions under which their licences are issued.
The Road Motor Transportation Act empowers the Commissioner of Road Transport to suspend the operator’s licence where it appears that there is disregard of the terms and conditions of the licences.
