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Sat 21 Dec 2002 23:46
More local fun - Ian (Cape Town)
This is what we have to endure...
From the Johannesburg Sunday Times:
A bus with bald tyres, no brakes, no licence disc, a twisted chassis and a pick-up's numberplates passed through a traffic control centre and several roving roadblocks on a 1 150km trip across South Africa. It dodged numerous highway patrols.
On Friday, the driver of the bus, Mxolisi Malusi, 46, of Butterworth, admitted he was not licensed to drive the bus as his permit had expired.
Inspector Nzwanele Mjali, the assistant director of traffic control in Queenstown, said the bus was a " deathtrap", with exposed wires on the dashboard and a dead bolt on the passenger door that could only be opened from the outside.
The chassis was so mangled that it appeared as if the vehicle was travelling "sideways".
Meanwhile, a Zimbabwe-registered bus was impounded and its driver fined in Johannesburg on Wednesday because it was overloaded and had no front brakes. Its worn-out steering mechanism was held together with wire.



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