Marizka Coetzer
Police have refused to give the pensioner clearance necessary to obtain his professional driver’s permit.
A pensioner from the East Rand has given up on renewing his professional driver’s permit (PDP) after running in circles to get clearance because his fingerprints were undetected. When Fanie Venter went to renew his PDP two years ago at the Edenvale Licensing Centre (ELC), the optical scanner also didn’t detect his fingerprints. “I went for the mandatory medical and eye tests. They then sent me to the police for fingerprinting, which took police almost two months to complete. I managed to renew my PDP with that clearance document endorsed with a no print,” he explained. Venter has struggled to...