{"id":9017,"date":"2013-08-13T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:00:26","slug":"yengeni-was-not-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9017","title":{"rendered":"‘Yengeni was not targeted’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tony Yengeni surrounded by polo enthusiasts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ANC national executive committee member Tony Yengeni was “substantially over the limit” when he was pulled over for drunk driving, according to a report.<\/p>\n

The Cape Argus<\/em> reported that Yengeni was first tested with a hand-held screening device when he was stopped in Cape Town. His Maserati was reportedly missing its numberplates.<\/p>\n

“Officers had spotted the Maserati driving erratically. Also, we take the absence of numberplates extremely seriously… If a vehicle doesn’t have a numberplate, then no other enforcement is possible,” City of Cape Town mayoral committee member JP Smith said, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

“Officers used a screening device, which showed he was substantially over the limit, which was sufficient basis on which to take him to the Shadow [Safely Home Anti Drunk-driving Operations War Room] centre in Athlone,” added Smith.<\/p>\n

He insisted that Yengeni had not been targeted.<\/p>\n

“Fifty-two people were nabbed across the province this weekend. Mr Yengeni is one of 52 – so he certainly wasn’t targeted. Anyway, without a numberplate it was improbable that officials would have known who he was anyway,” said Smith.<\/p>\n

He added that video footage will be made available to prove that police had a probable cause for pulling over Yengeni. – iAfrica.com
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ANC national executive committee member Tony Yengeni was “substantially over the limit” when he was pulled over for drunk driving, according to a report. The Cape Argus reported that Yengeni was first tested with a hand-held screening device when he was stopped in Cape Town. His Maserati was reportedly missing its numberplates. “Officers had spotted … Continue reading “‘Yengeni was not targeted’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4914,5060],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-drunk-driving","tag-tony-yengeni"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yengeni3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9025,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/9025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}