A bluelight driver in the Port Elizabeth mayor's motorcade caused a three-car pile-up over the weekend in the latest high-profile incident involving the by-now much-maligned VIP Protection Unit.
Mayor Nondumiso Maphazi (pic right) was reportedly rushing to the opening of the Ironman triathlon at the PE beach front on Sunday, when the lead car in her motorcade allegedly skipped a red light at high speed colliding with a Ford Bantam and sending it spinning into an ADT security vehicle. The mayor, in a silver Audi, continued to her engagement.
Last week Durban woman Kathleen Drummond had to be placed on anti-retroviral medication when another VIP bodyguard allegedly spat in her face and insulted her during an altercation on the N3 highway. Drummond apparently angered Msunduzi mayor Zanele Hlatshwayo’s (pic left) cavalcade by not moving to the slow lane quickly enough. She had been overtaking five trucks when the convoy sped up behind her.
In January, it emerged 111 members of the police’s elite VIP Protection Unit have been charged with a host of serious crimes in the past four years. Over the last five years, however, only two have been dismissed and five suspended.
Their alleged offences include murder and attempted murder, armed robbery, assault or assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm, rape, reckless or negligent driving, driving under the influence of alcohol and malicious damage to property.
National police representative, Senior Superintendent Vish Nai-doo, gave assurances that oafish road behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated – even summoning blue lights from across the country to Pretoria for a lecture on how to behave on the road.
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