TimesLIVE reports that acting Mpumalanga Hawks head Brig Obed Ngwenya on Sunday welcomed the arrest of four traffic officials and two police officers on Friday for allegedly soliciting bribes from motorists.  

He indicated that more arrests were imminent.  The six were arrested by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation in collaboration with the National Traffic Anti-Corruption Unit.  It is alleged that since April this year, the suspects solicited bribes from motorists along the N4, between Komatipoort and Middleburg.  It was established during a two-month investigation that the suspects were operating with impunity demanding bribes from unsuspecting tourists, threatening them that they would be arrested if they failed to pay the bribes, the Hawks indicated.  Three of the suspects appeared in the Komatipoort Magistrate’s Court on Friday and were granted R1,000 bail each.  The three other suspects were due to appear in court on Monday.

• Read the full original of Ernest Mabuza’s report on this story at TimesLIVE
• Read too, Crackdown on ‘cooldrink cops’, on page 5 of The Citizen of 24 June 2019

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