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The Citizen reports that Department of Home Affairs (DHA) Deputy Minister of Njabulo Nzuza has sent a stern warning to officials who collude with undocumented foreigners to give them SA identity documents.
This was said following the sentencing of former DHA official Judy Zuma, who was slapped with an effective 12-year imprisonment for being part of a syndicate that provided fraudulent passports to foreign nationals who did not qualify for the documents. Zuma operated with foreign nations in a syndicate colluding with SA citizens to assist foreign nationals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “The foreign nationals fraudulently replaced the owner’s photos with theirs and assumed the names of the South African citizens,” Colonel Katlego Mogale reported. They paid Zama R4,000 for each passport. She issued about 192 passports between May and June 2021. Nzuza said this was not the only case the DHA was pursuing. He sent a warning to other officials who might be involved in the corruption and said: “This is a call to other people who are involved in this that you might think you are getting away with it. We will definitely get you. We will make sure you suffer the consequences just like Zuma.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Vhahangwele Nemakonde at The Citizen
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