IOL News reports that two officials, aged 45 and 47, were arrested on Monday at a driving licence testing center (DLTC) in Mkhuhlu by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation’s (Hawks’) Nelspruit-based serious corruption investigation unit during an entrapment operation.

Hawks Mpumalanga spokesperson, Captain Dineo Lucy Sekgotodi, reported: “The arrest followed after information was received by the Hawks about officials who are soliciting for gratification. It is alleged that on January 8, the complainant went to Mkhuhlu DLTC to write a learner’s licence. After writing she found that she had failed. Then, the female examiner who was invigilating when they wrote approached her and told her that she could be assisted in passing a learner’s licence only if she could pay her a gratification of R1,000.” The matter was reported to the Hawks’ Nelspruit-based serious corruption investigation unit and the complainant was used as an agent to transact with the target. The Hawks recovered the entrapment money amounting to R1,000. Additionally, the Hawks’ unit confiscated an extra R9,600 from the DLTC officials. “Other applicants who were also writing the test on Monday also submitted their statements, since they paid gratification as well,” said Sekgotodi. The two officials were immediately arrested and detained, pending their first court appearance before the Mkhuhlu Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jonisayi Maromo at IOL News

• See too, Traffic officers, arrested for allegedly charging R1,000 for learner’s licence, released on bail, at IOL News

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