A taxi driver was sentenced to six months in jail on Monday for trying to bribe traffic officers with R200.
The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) welcomed the sentence, which was handed down at the Atteridgeville Regional Court in Pretoria.
Thabani Nqakula was arrested by members of the national traffic police in January this year.
He was stopped for driving an un-roadworthy vehicle on a public road. He offered the officers a R200 bribe to avoid receiving a traffic fine. He was arrested immediately and charged with bribery.
Nqakula was sentenced to six months' imprisonment or a R3000 fine. He was further given a three-year sentence suspended for five years.
The RTMC said in a statement that officials had arrested about 50 motorists since the beginning of the year for bribery and the cases were at various stages of prosecution in different Gauteng courts, according to the statement.
- African News Agency (ANA)
