Four KZN learner drivers handed fine, or five-year sentence
Traffic officials have welcomed the sentences handed down at a Durban court - where four learner's licence applicants were found guilty of bribing officials and were ordered to pay R5000 or face five years in jail.
The Road Traffic Management Corporation says more suspects - including officials - will line up in court in connection with the fraudulent issuing of learner's licences.
15 people including 6 officials were nabbed at a licensing office in Howick last year, during anti-corruption raids.
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The corporation's Simon Zwane says the traffic officials will appear in court later this year.
"This brings to nine the number of learner license applicants arrested in Howick in March last year - that have been convicted and sentenced. We are going on trial in June for the officials who were part of this scam. We look forward to a stiffer sentence when that is concluded," he said.
