MPUMALANGA’S chief traffic inspector is back at work after being convicted of drunken driving and escaping from custody last month. Alpheus Mavela Ngwenya was fined only R2000, and KaBokweni Magistrate Ereskia le Grange said the sentence was lenient because he was going to lose his job. Former provincial traffic director Henry Brazier, who received a golden handshake of more than R1-million when he resigned on Monday, said after the May 12 verdict that Ngwenya would be dismissed within a week. He said that according to the Road Traffic Act of 1989, any traffic official found guilty on criminal charges would be dismissed. When transport MEC Jackson Mthembu was asked about Ngwenya on Friday, he referred queries to the head of department, Lawrence Lebeya, who was not available. Ngwenya was also implicated by the Moldenhauer Commission in massive licence fraud.