A former police constable has been fined R10,000 (or six months in prison if he doesn't pay up) for corruption by the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court
Magistrate Amrith Chabillal sentenced Thanduxolo Mbeke, 31, to an additional two years in jail, conditionally suspended for five years.
Mbeke accepted a R1500 bribe for a bus’s police clearance certificate.
He pleaded guilty and received a letter to say that his appeal against his dismissal had been rejected.
In November last year, the Western Cape directorate for public prosecutions authorised a trap after Mbeke requested R2000 from bus owner Moosa Moolla.
Moolla reported him to the Cape Town central vehicle identification section (VIS), which assisted in the arrest by providing R1500 in police money.
A month later, Moolla returned to the VIS and gave Mbeke the money. He accepted it and issued the certificate without checking the bus’s engine number.