POLOKWANE – Limpopo Public Transport Unit officers this morning, stopped a 22 seater cross border taxi with double the amount of passengers on board.
According to the spokesperson for the Department of Transport, Matome Moremi-Taueutsoala, the bus was stopped on the N1 next to Snake Park just outside Polokwane. The bus was enroute to Zimbabwe from Johannesburg.
Photo: Limpopo Department of Transport
“We have called cross border officials to authenticate cross border papers but the driver doesn’t have a permit to drive this kind of vehicle,” he said.
There were 44 people on board, seven of them children.
Photo: Limpopo Department of Transport
Moremi-Taueutsoala says this is totally unacceptable and that traffic officers will continue to crack down on those who break the law.
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