MPUMALANGA’S outspoken former transport MEC, Jackson Mthembu, has finally been charged for driving without a license after wrecking a luxury government vehicle five months ago. He allegedly smashed the government-issue Mercedes-Benz into a tree at high speed while on African National Congress business in Witbank just before the June elections. Mthembu, who now chairs the provincial portfolio committee on traffic, will appear in Witbank’s Magistrate Court on Thursday on charges of driving without a valid drivers’ license.