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Independent News reports that according to the national traffic anti-corruption unit of the Road Traffic Management Unit (RTMC), together with the Hawks, at least 95 officials from licensing departments around the country have been arrested on suspicion of fraud and corruption in the past financial year.
On Wednesday, yet another licensing department official, from the uMngeni Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, was arrested on suspicion of fraud and corruption. A least 19 suspects have been arrested at that station since March last year, leading to the belief that there is a criminal network at work there. Nine of them were learner licence applicants. RTMC spokesperson Simon Zwane noted that corrupt officials from Limpopo, Gauteng, Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal led the pack with the most arrests. On Monday last week, the RTMC announced the cancellation of registration and the permanent closure of the Orlando Testing Station in Soweto and the Viking Testing Station in Devland following allegations of fraud and corruption. The deregistrations followed investigations and the arrests of three motor vehicle examiners and a clerk by the RTMC last year. Zwane reported that campaigns were run throughout the year to sensitise the community and officials about the negative effects of corruption in an attempt to limit the problem.
Read the full original of this Independent News report by Chulumanco Mahamba at Security.co.za
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