CAPE TOWN, March 10 (ANA) – Two men who gave traffic officials at Ashton in the Western Cape, a R2,000 bribe to corruptly issue learner drivers permits, without the applicants having to write the necessary tests, received suspended jail sentences on Friday.
Khayalethu Robert Mxube, 41, of Stellenberg in Cape Town’s northern suburbs, and Oscar Wade Gerbach, 54, of Athlone, appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, before Magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg. The two men were sentenced to five years, suspended for five years.
Both had pleaded guilty to one charge of corruption during plea bargain proceedings, after legal aid attorney Harley Cloete had negotiated the two agreements with prosecutor Thersia du Toit-Smit.
According to court papers, the agreements were based on an undertaking by both men to assist in the police investigations into Ashton traffic department officials Karel Davids, Andile Dondolo and Jason Naidoo.
The two men are also to testify at the coming corruption trial pertaining to the three Ashton officials.
According to the court papers, the bribe was allegedly given to Naidoo in April last year, to pass on to the Dondolo and Davids.
The court papers did not clarify whether Mxube and Gerbach were driving instructors, or the reason why they needed to obtain learner drivers’ permits corruptly without the applicants having to write the tests in the normal manner.
– African News Agency (ANA)
