TimesLIVE reports that Mpumalanga police commissioner Lt-Gen Mondli Zuma has congratulated two police officers who refused an alleged R42,000 bribe from a man they had arrested for allegedly impersonating a security officer.  

Constables Vuyi Mqhwathi and Mandla Khumalo, from the Balfour police station, were on a routine patrol near a gold mine on Wednesday when they spotted a vehicle without a registration number parked near the mine gate.  When approached, the driver reportedly claimed he was working for a security company based in Nigel and that he was doing a site visit.  When contacted, the security company denied knowing him.  Mqhwathi and Khumalo then took the suspect to the police station to charge him for impersonating a security officer.  Along the way, the suspect reportedly took R2,000 and then a further R42,000 from a plastic bag and offered it to the officers in exchange for his freedom, but the members would not budge.  An additional charge of bribery was laid against the suspect.  Zuma said he hoped the officers' conduct would rub off onto other members of the force and that their conduct was exactly what was expected from every member of the organisation.

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