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Are there any vehicles you can drive on the road without a license?

Does anyone know the rules - is there any sort of speed or engine size limit before a license is required??? People have suggested a small engine on a pushbike, a rickshaw / pedicab, a lawnmower, a robin reliant, a motorised scooter??


Electric vehicles can be driven by anybody over 14 years old.

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YOU should remember the first car you ever bought. In most cases, it was because you needed a contraption that would take you from place to place. Even the socialists of our day knew the necessity of owning a vehicle.

Former University of Zimbabwe lecturer Professor Shadrack Gutto who drove around in a battered jalopy was once confronted by his students. “A car is a car, comrades,” he shot back in his East African accent. “As long as it takes you from point A to point B, it’s a car!”

Gutto could never explain why so many of the female species are so enamoured by cars to the extent that if one tied a plastic bottle filled with petrol to a wheel barrow, they would hop on! That will remain one of the greatest mysteries of our time.

Being so impressionable, I took a leaf from Gutto’s manifesto and purchased a second hand Renault 4 (R4). You know the one with the funny umbrella gear leaver. A friend who is now late (may the Lord Bless his soul) referred to it as an ‘instrument.’ “Lenox is driving an instrument!” he used to shout to all and sundry, much to my chagrin.

Nomusa and I knew then that it would take considerable effort to convince our intelligent and blatantly blunt first born son that we had bought the bargain of the century. At least that is what we thought at the time. It was then that he dropped one of those direct questions that begged an equally direct answer.

“Dad, why don’t we buy a better looking car, more like the ones reasonable fathers drive?” It was a tough question coming from a four year old. What stung me most was the word ‘reasonable.’ Put anywhere in a sentence directed at me, it really hurt.

After spending a fortune attempting to transform the R4 classic model into a miniature version of the Space Shuttle, we soon found ourselves seeking to obtain a healthy return on our massive investment. We had it re-sprayed, re-upholstered and serviced, tweaked it, you name it, we did it. If you asked me it was as good as new. Well almost.

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