{"id":9676,"date":"2018-06-18T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-motorist-arrested-on-allegations-of-fraud-in-mthatha-ec\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:30:06","slug":"a-motorist-arrested-on-allegations-of-fraud-in-mthatha-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-motorist-arrested-on-allegations-of-fraud-in-mthatha-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"A Motorist Arrested on Allegations of Fraud in Mthatha, EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Mthatha magistrate court has released a taxi driver on a R500 bail after he was arrested by the Road Traffic Management Corporation&rsquo;s National Traffic Anti-Corruption Unit for displaying a false licence disk on his vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested on Sunday after members of the anti-corruption unit established that the vehicle he was driving had allegedly been suspended in 2015 after he was involved in a crash. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with fraud after it was discovered that his unroadworthy vehicle had allegedly displayed a licence disc belonging to another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The court released him on bail and postponed the case to 11 July 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The driver has a previous conviction of culpable homicide and a five year suspended sentence following the 2015 crash.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of the RTMC, Advocate Makhosini Msibi has welcomed the arrest by members of the anti-corruption unit, and hopes this will improve efforts for compliance with road traffic regulations by motorists&rsquo;. &nbsp;The public can report incidences of fraud and corruption on: 0861 400 800.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RTMC<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=2&#038;i=34881&#038;page=A-Motorist-Arrested-on-Allegations-of-Fraud-in-Mthatha-EC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mthatha magistrate court has released a taxi driver on a R500 bail after he was arrested by the Road Traffic Management Corporation&rsquo;s National Traffic Anti-Corruption Unit for displaying a false licence disk on his vehicle.&nbsp; The driver was arrested on Sunday after members of the anti-corruption unit established that the vehicle he was driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[168,2153,175,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-9676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}