My bakkie’s licence expired on 31 July. I went to our local municipal office to renew it – only to discover that the employees were on strike and behind locked doors.
According to the renewal notice, I had three weeks’ grace before facing the possibility of being fined by the traffic police. But I couldn’t find anyone to advise me when the strike was likely to be over.
If it extended beyond the grace period and I was stopped by the police, would they believe that I had tried to renew my licence but wasn’t able to? Not likely. Yet another example of municipal inefficiency.
This story is from the Farmer's Weekly August 2019 edition of Farmer's Weekly.
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