Cape Town - Former ANC Western Cape chairperson Chris Nissen has been arrested for drunk driving in his Porsche SUV.
Nissen was stopped at a roadblock on Botfontein Road in Kraaifontein on Sunday afternoon.
Police did a breathalyser test. Police spokesperson FC Van Wyk confirmed the arrest.
“A drunk and driving case was opened against a 56-year-old male for investigation. He was arrested and released on warning to appear in court on 22 October 2015,” he said.
Police had to take Nissen back to the roadblock after his arrest because they couldn’t move his Porsche Cayenne. They needed his fingerprint to start-up the posh car before they could impound it.
Nissen was a church minister and anti-apartheid activist in the late 1970s.
He later went into business, serving on the board of several property and investment companies, as well as at Standard Bank and Woolworths.
In 2012, he returned to church work and became a Presbyterian minister to a church of 300 people in Khayelitsha.
Nissen joins a list of ANC heavyweights who have been caught on the wrong side of traffic laws in Cape Town.
The ANC’s former chief whip Tony Yengeni will answer to charges of drunk, reckless and negligent driving in the Western Cape High Court this month.
He was arrested last year for allegedly driving his Maserati while under the influence, and is currently out on R500 bail.
It was the second time he’d been nabbed drinking and driving.
In 2010, former ANC spokesperson and now Member of Parliament, Jackson Mthembu, was also arrested for driving drunk.
He was caught speeding on the N2 bus lane near the Pinelands turn-off, and paid an admission of guilt fine of R12 000.
The City of Cape Town’s Richard Bosman says 21 motorists were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol at the roadblock on Sunday.
Daily Voice