Need a driver’s licence? Touts are selling them on social media

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Syndicates are brazenly touting licences for sale on social media despite several arrests at driving licensing testing centres in Gauteng last year. In this audio, a man tells an undercover reporter that he will write the test of behalf of his son. Full story in the Sunday Times.
4 Mar 8AM English South Africa News · Daily News

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