{"id":118026,"date":"2016-03-25T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=118026"},"modified":"2016-03-25T23:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:21:03","slug":"how-much-a-fake-car-licence-disc-costs-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/118026\/how-much-a-fake-car-licence-disc-costs-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How much a fake car licence disc costs in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has lifted the lid on the illegal sale of vehicle documentation at a notorious Johannesburg testing station.<\/p>\n<p>The SABC reported that it was able to fraudulently secure a cloned car licence disc and the real owners&#8217; particulars for just R1,500 at the Langlaagte testing station.<\/p>\n<p>It reported that fraudsters were working with Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officials, with one officer under investigation after the scandal was exposed.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the illegal selling of car papers on to a third party was just one of the corrupt practices taking place at the testing station.<\/p>\n<p>The police department said it is not ruling out the possibility of more corrupt officials being implicated in the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister, Dipuo Peters said that the department would take strong action against those corrupt officials. &#8220;They are going to lose their jobs and are going to end up in jail.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gTUszI-RxY\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>More on South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/102849\/new-car-licence-law-comes-into-effect-in-sa\/\">New car licence law comes into effect in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/110069\/watch-motorist-pulled-over-for-disappearing-number-plates-in-sa\/\">How many car number plates are cloned in Gauteng<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"item-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/110069\/watch-motorist-pulled-over-for-disappearing-number-plates-in-sa\/\">Watch: Motorist pulled over for \u2018disappearing\u2019 number plates in SA<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has lifted the lid on an illegal sale of vehicle documentation at a notorious Johannesburg testing station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,667],"class_list":["post-118026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118032,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026\/revisions\/118032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}