Tony Yengeni drunk driving case

Yengeni back in court for drunk driving

Cape Town - ANC national executive committee member Tony Yengeni is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Wednesday on drunk driving charges.

During his last appearance in January, the court heard that the director of public prosecutions (DPP) had communicated with the national director of public prosecutions and that the State was awaiting an outcome.

Yengeni was out on bail of R500. He has not yet pleaded to charges of drunk driving and reckless or negligent driving.

As an alternative to the drunk driving charge, Yengeni allegedly drove with a blood-alcohol level of 0.25%, five times the legal limit of 0.05. He was arrested in August 2013 after City of Cape Town law enforcement officials saw him allegedly driving his Maserati erratically in the Cape Town CBD.

In a statement issued after his arrest, the city's safety and security mayoral committee member JP Smith said Yengeni had been one of 52 people arrested during a weekend operation.

Smith alleged that at least one of Yengeni's car number plates was missing at the time.

He said a screening device indicated Yengeni was substantially over the blood alcohol level.

For this reason, Yengeni was taken to the “shadow centre” for a blood sample to be taken and sent for analysis.

In 2007, Yengeni was arrested in Goodwood, Cape Town, on a charge of drunk driving, but was found not guilty.

News24
Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Yengeni-back-in-court-for-drunk-driving-20150408
 
Yengeni drunk driving case back in court

25 May 2015 at 09:15 by News24.com - The drunken driving case against ANC NEC member Tony Yengeni is expected to continue in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court today.

During his previous appearance in April, Yengeni’s lawyer, Sylvester Vogel, said the party’s national executive committee member would pursue plea negotiations with the director of public prosecutions.

Magistrate Nasha Banwari postponed the matter for the plea agreement negotiations.

Yengeni, who is out on R500 bail, was arrested in August 2013 after he was stopped for allegedly driving his Maserati erratically in central Cape Town.
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http://www.ecr.co.za/post/yengeni-drunk-driving-case-back-court/
 
An news item with headline "Tony Yengeni seen sober" will be more of a suprise
 
Yengeni absent from drunken driving case

Jenna Etheridge, News24

Cape Town – ANC NEC member Tony Yengeni was in Johannesburg as his drunken driving case was called up in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday morning.

Yengeni, out on bail, was apparently excused beforehand.

He did not miss much, because the matter was postponed for the umpteenth time.

Prosecutor David Jacobs told the court an impression had been created that the State was to blame for the last delay regarding the finalisation of plea agreement negotiations, when it was not.

He set out a timeline of correspondence between the Western Cape director of public prosecutions (DPP) and defence lawyer Sylvester Vogel.

It has been two years since Yengeni was arrested in Green Point, Cape Town, after officials allegedly noticed that he did not appear to have proper control of his Maserati.

As an alternative to the drunken driving charge, Yengeni allegedly drove with a blood-alcohol level of 0.25%, five times the legal limit of 0.05%.

When the national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) decided in April to go ahead with the charges against him, Vogel pursued the route of plea negotiations.

On Friday, Vogel conceded that the wrong impression had been created about correspondence at his client's last appearance in June.

“What must be abundantly clear is that we always intended to negotiate and we have done so,” he said.

“We have meetings with the DPP, we have discussions and correspondence has flowed.”

He said they submitted a “proposal” earlier this month for the NDPP to consider.

Magistrate Nasha Banwari postponed the matter until September 25 for feedback from the NDPP.

News24
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Yengeni-absent-from-drunken-driving-case-20150821
 
And he will throw the mother of all parties to celebrate how he "got off"
 
Yengeni is currently the ANC's head of political education. He was found guilty of fraud relating to the arms deal and released on parole in 2007 after serving four months of his four year sentence.
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I wonder if the minister made a special effort to check the parole procedure had been followed.
 
There really is sweet f'all to negotiate with the NPA. The bloods speak for themselves.

Any other normal citizen it all would have been over long ago.
 
Sneeky said:
There really is sweet f'all to negotiate with the NPA. The bloods speak for themselves.

Any other normal citizen it all would have been over long ago.
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Time now for Shaun Abrahams to really earn his salary = Cover the arses of selected comrades.
Nomgcobo Jiba was only the first but the poison goes all the way to Showerhead783
 
Absent eh? I'll put hard money down the guy is at home vrot drunk.
 
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