so i failed my license.......again......

mity88 · 2011-06-30T12:48:10+00:00

but this time it was different, and i know the topic shouldnt be political, this isnt i promise, just bear with me. so i do the yard test perfectly, get like 9 points right, and we head to the road test, all is going well, despite me getting irritated by the lady officer that keeps snorting like a pig... next thing, i stop at a stop street, do the whole handbrake and observe and what not and just as i pull off a car comes to the right of me that i somehow didnt see while "observing", so as i was already in motion i just carried on going. anyway, we get back to the office and she tells me that i have failed bcoz of the dangerous act i did, BUT, she says, "do you know what labola is? i reply yeah sure, she then says, "well how much labola will you pay to "fix" your mistake?" i find it really strange how they can think they can just bribe people like that, so my reply was this, "i made a mistake and ill pay the consequences, but as for your labola, im white and we dont pay labola!" so, being a good citizen and not accepting the bribe, i failed the test for......wait for it.........the FOURTH time!!!!! ahhhh, so frustrated now, what action can i take??? well, if you read this far im grateful....i just needed to vent!!!!

Bob-Dubery

OK... there's been a quick peace keeping exercise here. Please keep it polite.

Dirk

Brentcgp wrote Name and Shame..

Write in to 702, name the department... name the officer if you remeber. report the Bastid >☹

702 actually had a big story on it about two/three weeks ago. Driving instructors called in and complained about the same thing. The officers tells the learners that if they don't pay bribes, they can forget about ever getting a license.

It's disturbing really, the bloody Mofos!!!

Jinx

Sorry about that mity88.

I know the feeling all too well. I had been driving for 2 years prior to actually getting my licence and I only managed to get my licence on my 5th try.

First and second failures were legit - I mounted a curb on the first and reversed into a pole on the second ?
Third and fourth were a load of rubbish. I allegedly rolled forwards, whilst in reverse and on a level surface. When I tried to point out the obvious, the testing officer became irate and started yelling. At that point I drove away.

Where are you doing the tests? I live in Joburg, so my first 3 tests were attempted at Edenvale (lots of dodginess there) , the 4th was at Wadeville and I finally managed to get it at Kempton.

I would definitely report it to a senior officer - hopefully something can be done.

Good luck for the next one!

Bob-Dubery

Donovan Banks wrote After watching "Hotel Rwanda" I have a different mindset about bribery.

I'm not a fan of it though but if my (or my family's) life or freedom is dependent on me doing something untoward then I'll do it.

Well there's different degrees of this malarkey.

The incident that I referred to earlier (I'm not giving too many details, legal advice and all that) was to "facilitate" solving a problem which legitimately was not mine and which would not have stood had the matter gone to court. This is comparable for having to pay for something that's already mine by right.

Then there are "favours". I can help you get this thing that you don't have (building permission, business deal, driver's license) or make some inconvenient thing (traffic ticket, bad debt) go away if you give me a certain sum of money. This is the really damaging one IMO.

I'd hardly call paying somebody to preserve your life "bribery". A protection racket maybe. No court would convict you, and we shouldn't treat all instances of money changing hands in the same light.

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