Gvt To De-Register 30 000 Unregistered Vehicles, Leaving Only Properly Documented Cars

AT least 30 000 unregistered motor vehicles face imminent de-registration as Government moves to update the national vehicle population and ensure only properly documented cars use the roads.

The Central Vehicle Registry’s records show that the country has 1,4 million vehicles, a figure that is cumulative from 1918

Government will soon publish a gazette outlawing at least 30 000 vehicles that have not been registered for the last two years and beyond.

The move is in line with provisions of Section 12 of the Vehicle Registration and Licensing Act (Chapter 13:14), which empowers the Central Vehicle Registrar to cancel licences for vehicles with outstanding statutory fees.

Central Vehicle Registrar Mr George Makoni said the department would de-register 30 372 vehicles, which will subsequently be taken off the Zimbabwe National Road Administration’s live database. He said some vehicles appeared only on the Zinara database and not on the Central Vehicle Registry.

“Over the years some people have not been coming to register or apply for exemption for their vehicles, however, some of the vehicles have remained on the roads,” he said.

“We did not have tangible evidence to de-register the vehicles but since Zinara developed a Live Vehicle Data System (in May 2012), we can now identify the vehicles which have been skipping licensing.

“There are vehicles that have been appearing in the Central Vehicle Registry database since 1918 but do not appear in the new Zinara database, so the Zinara database will be the starting point.

“As of March this year, we had 220 000 vehicles that had not been registered for more than two years. However as of August 17, the number had declined to 30 372 and these are the vehicles that we are going to de-register.” – Source-sunday mail