Western Cape Transport MEC Robin Carlisle has announced he is disappointed at what he believes is a lenient sentence handed to a man found guilty for drunk driving.

Forty-five year-old plumber Selwin Madden was fined R8000 by the Bishop Lavis Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

He was caught driving with his blood alcohol level at 0.35 percent, around seven times the legal limit.

Madden pleaded guilty to the charge. He was fined but his license was not suspended.

However, Carlisle has made it clear he is not impressed.

"He had seven times more alcohol in him that he should have had in him which means he was almost certainly incapable of driving that car."