# Former Free State MEC for Police, Roads and Transport Butana Komphela was given a suspended sentence after being convicted of culpable homicide. The Magistrate’s Court in Brandfort found he was responsible for an accident in 2019 that claimed the life of Samuel Manyova. Phaladi Shuping of the National Prosecuting Authority says an accident scene expert proved Komphela was driving at about 150-kilometers per hour in an 80-kilomoter zone when he swerved into oncoming traffic. Komphela’s three-year sentence has been wholly suspended.