The government has suspended the operations of buses belonging to Rimbi Travel Tours and Tashllyt Investments trading as Zebra Kiss from operating in Zimbabwe following a fatal accident that occurred along the Harare Nyamapanda highway on Tuesday.
The accident has so far claimed one life and caused serious injuries of many passengers.
In a video that is circulating on social media, the conductor of the Rimbi bus can be seen filming the Zebra Kiss bus,which was ahead of them, but blocking them from overtaking as they were competing for passengers.
When the Zebra Kiss bus overtook a Tipper vehicle, the Rimbi bus driver, Penyai Misheck, 39, of Marlborough did not have time to react and hit the truck’s loading box, killing his conductor on the spot.
In a statement the Minister of Transport Felix Mhona said they have suspended the operations of Rimbi and Zebra Kiss buses from all routes with immediate effect.
“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 of the matter in terms of section 17 (2) of the road motor transportation act (Chapter 13:15) invoked provisions of section 17 (1) (b) of the same act and suspended the licenses of Rimbi Travel and Tours and Tashllyt Investiments Trading as Zebra Kiss from operating all its omnibuses in all the routes as authorized by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development. This suspension is with immediate effect,” reads the statement.