Maserati in road rage mystery
2005-10-24 23:16
Ziegfried Ekron
Cape Town - A midnight quarrel and a mysterious Maserati which apparently first belonged to a certain T S Yengeni and then to Brett Kebble, are some of the ingredients of a court case soon to be tried here.
The police confirmed that a case of assault will be heard on November 25 in the Cape Town magistrate's court, concerning an incident of road rage at the beginning of the year, but did not want to link well-known people's names to it.
The plaintiff in the assault case alleges that on January 6 a blue Maserati collided with the Mercedes he was driving and forced it off the road after swerving wildly.
When the two vehicles eventually stopped, the driver of the
Maserati apparently got out and man-handled the driver of the Mercedes.
Transferred to Kebble's name
Reports state that the Maserati was registered at that stage in the name of one T S Yengeni of Bishops Court, but a week later, after the plaintiff reported the case, the car was allegedly transferred to Kebble's name.
Superintendent Billy Jones confirmed the investigation into the road rage incident, but said he could not disclose the name of the plaintiff or the Maserati driver.
Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni said on Monday that he has no knowledge of the incident. ''I have never owned a Maserati and have never been involved in an accident with one,'' said Yengeni.
Reporters also learned that the man who will appear in court in connection with the alleged assault is not the person in whose name the Maserati was first registered.
It is not clear how the damaged Maserati came to be registered in Kebble's name after the accident.
Former Scorpions chief Bulelani Ncguka claimed in a confidential meeting with newspaper editors in 2003 that Kebble bought cars for members of the ANC Youth League and that he financed some ANC members.
Yengeni was recently in the news in connection with another purported incident of road rage after a driver in a Mercedes registered in his wife's name swerved wildly in Milnerton, Cape Town, and mounted the kerb.
The police could not confirm whether Yengeni was behind the wheel, but witnesses said the driver fitted his description.
- Die Burger