Yengeni pleads in drunk driving case

ANC veteran Tony Yengeni pleaded not guilty to drunk driving and reckless driving charges in the Cape Town Magistrate's court. File photo: Cindy Waxa

ANC veteran Tony Yengeni pleaded not guilty to drunk driving and reckless driving charges in the Cape Town Magistrate's court. File photo: Cindy Waxa

Published Nov 27, 2015

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Cape Town - African National Congress veteran Tony Yengeni on Friday pleaded not guilty to drunk driving and reckless driving charges in the Cape Town Magistrate’s court.

Yengeni, dressed in a beige suit, stood in the dock listening intently as the two charges and alternative counts of “inconsiderate driving” and having “an excessive amount of alcohol in his blood” was put to him by the magistrate.

He told the court he understood the charges and wished to plead not guilty.

Yengeni’s advocate, Dirk Uys, said Yengeni would not immediately disclose the nature of his defence, but indicated: “The blood sample taken from the accused, we will allege was taken in contravention of his constitutional rights to privacy.”

Yengeni was arrested in 2013 after law enforcement officers noticed him driving his luxury sports car erratically in the Cape Town CBD.

The ANC National Executive Committee member was also arrested for drunk driving in 2007, but was found not guilty in the ensuing trial after it transpired that his blood samples had been tampered with.

African News Agency

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