The ANC NEC member is back on the witness stand for the resumption of his trial in Cape Town.
FILE: Tony Yengeni leaves the Cape Town Magistrates Court after his drunk driving trial resumed on Friday, 11 December 2015. Picture: Xolani Koyana/EWN.
CAPE TOWN – African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) member Tony Yengeni has told the court he did not endanger anyone’s life on the night he was arrested for alleged drunk driving.
Yengeni is back on the witness stand for the resumption of his trial in the Cape Town Magistrates Court today.
The state claims the politician was three times beyond the legal limit, but he says he only had three sips of traditional beer hours before his arrest.
Under cross examination by Prosecutor Leon Snyman, Yengeni has denied that he was driving recklessly on the night he was arrested.
Yengeni says the impression being created is that he was endangering the lives of other motorists.
But that is not the case, he argued.
He told the court the notion that he was driving while drunk is a figment of someone’s imagination.
Snyman showed the court CCTV footage of the night Yengeni was arrested, in which he alleges the politician’s vehicle made several illegal moves.
He says Yengeni had previously told the court he did not change lanes but the video shows otherwise.
(Edited by Leeto M Khoza)
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