A traffic officer and a former chief traffic officer from the Makhado Municipality have been granted bail after being arrested for allegedly defrauding taxi operators of more than R100,000 by selling fake operating permits.
The arrests took place on Friday, 18 July. The duo, Jan Zitha (65) and Gushile William Mathonsi (55), appeared in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate's Court on Monday, 21 July.
Zitha, a former chief traffic officer from Bungeni, and Mathonsi, a traffic officer fr...