Driving-licence corruption is the retail end of state failure: a bribe of a few hundred rand puts an untested driver on the road. Elvis Frank Nontyi held the authority to test and issue licences at the Stellenbosch Driver's Licence and Testing Centre and had access to the NaTIS system. Between 17 March and 19 July 2022 he accepted cash from applicants in exchange for learner's and driver's licences — R5,550 in total.
The Hawks' Western Cape Serious Corruption Investigation built the case. Nontyi pleaded guilty to six counts of corruption, and on 4 September 2026 the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crimes Court sentenced him to six years' imprisonment, three of them suspended for five years, and declared him unfit to possess a firearm.
The amount is the smallest in this archive. The record is here because the case is fully proven, because it names the mechanism behind a road-death toll of more than 12,000 a year, and because it shows what a completed prosecution looks like when the state chooses to run one.