Source: Vehicle number plates fees to be slashed – DailyNews Live
Staff Writer 4 July 2017
HARARE – Government is considering slashing the cost of vehicle licence
plates to contribute towards government policy on ease-of-doing business,
deputy Transport minister Michael Madanha has told the National Assembly.
He was responding to a question by Nketa-Mganwini MDC MP Phelela Masuku
who asked the deputy minister to explain why the cost was so high
considering that cheap material was used to produce them.
Madanha said the material used was high quality aluminium.
The number plates costs $160, with Madanha saying it cost about $100 to
produce a set of vehicle registration documents, that is, front and rear
number plates, the registration book and the third number plate for a
motor vehicle.
“We see opportunities to reduce the user fee charge for motor vehicle
number plates to $125 and that of trailers to $105.
“We are also considering a reduction in the replacement cost for a damaged
or lost number plate in respect of number plates for public service
vehicles and private vehicles from the current $160 and $140 to $90 and
$75 respectively,” Madanha said.
COMMENTS
These people are liars of the worst kind… You can buy a number plate in South Africa for R120 .. $10 each… These number plates and 3rd number plates are just a scam and we are being ripped off.
New number plates in Johannesburg cost R150 per set or roughly US$12.00 and the quality is far superior to Zimbabwean plates. so please advise how the local plates are so expensive
At a good guess some politician milking the system