TONY Yengeni yesterday admitted in court that he couldn’t remember everything that happened when he was bust for drunk driving in August 2013.
The former ANC chief whip in parliament took the stand in the Cape Town Magistrates Court, and was shown video evidence by prosecutor Leon Snyman of the night he was bust.
Previously, Yengeni told the court he didn’t cross lanes at an intersection in Green Point on the day he was arrested.
When the video showed that his car had made several illegal moves and changed lanes, he said: “I don’t remember everything.
“My recollection tells me I went straight but now that I see the video, it speaks for itself.”
Yengeni said when he made the statement that he went straight he didn’t mean to mislead the court, but that it was just his understanding of what took place.
Snyman and Yengeni clashed after the prosecutor said he had apologised to the officer who arrested him.
“I never said I’m sorry. Sorry for what?” Yengeni answered.
The prosector earlier said Yengeni swore at the officer after he asked him to get out of his car. “I didn’t swear at him, but I was very firm so that he would not push me around,” Yengeni said.
Snyman claimed Yengeni had changed some of the statements he made under oath.
Yengeni also denied that he refused to co-operate with the traffic officer.
“When he asked me to breath into the breathalyser I co-operated, and that was when he arrested me.”
Yengeni is out on R500 bail.
