Pay the fine or do the time: Bribe-seeking traffic cop fined R60k, judge seeks mandatory jail time
A Northern Cape High Court judge has said that direct imprisonment must be the norm when sentencing people convicted of corruption. Judge Mpho Mamosebo described a sentence imposed by a lower court on an Upington traffic officer who demanded a R1 000 bribe from a motorist as “laughable”. The officer was fined R10 000, payable…...