AN Mpumalanga traffic officer and a driving school owner appeared briefly in the Evander regional court on Thursday in connection with massive licence fraud. Leandra traffic officer Andrea Lourens and the owner of Ace Driving School in Springs, Lenish Moodley, are out on R5 000 bail each. Lourens is accused of issuing allegedly fraudulent drivers’ licences to some of Moodley’s clients. The two men were arrested during a raid at the Leandra testing centre in January. Licence scandals are not new in Mpumalanga. Delmas testing centre was temporarily closed after it gave a learners and drivers licence to deputy speaker of national parliament, Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile, without testing her in 1997. – African Eye News Service
Thursday September 27, 2001