An outburst by an angry Judge Nkola Motata on Thursday in the Johannesburg Magistrate's court earned him a rebuke from the magistrate.

A witness to Judge Nkola Motata's accident said he did not speak to Motata for the first half hour on the scene because the judge was mainly asleep.

The drunken driving case against cricketer Herschelle Gibbs was postponed in his absence in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday.

Linda Mti, the chief security officer for the 2010 Soccer World Cup was acquitted on drunken-driving charges in the Hillbrow Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

The state will be able to play five audio recordings made at the scene of Judge Nkola John Motata's car accident in January last year when his drunken-driving trial resumes next month.

The drunken-driving charge against Tony Yengeni, former chief whip of the African National Congress, is linked to the criminal case involving the former commander of the Goodwood police station, Siphiwo Hewana, the Goodwood Magistrate's Court heard.

Driving drunk can change lives forever, yet many South Africans -- perhaps lulled by a lack of effective law enforcement -- do it every day.

A man staggering and groping like a blind man and swearing like a sailor. That was the picture painted of Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata this week.