Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says an investigation has been launched to bring to book more than 5,000 government officials who benefited from the R350 social relief of distress grant.
Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says an investigation has been launched to bring to book more than 5,000Responding to a written parliamentary question this week, Zulu said her department was working with the policethe National Prosecution Authority , the Financial Intelligence Centre and the department of public service and administration discipline management unit to investigate 5,812 cases of officials caught for fraud.
While thousands of officials were caught in the act of doing so, a sample of 242 civil servants was taken “to learn from it through identification of challenges and theirShe said the investigation of the 242 found that “44 civil servants qualified to receive SRD grants as they were employed on a sessional basis, resulting in 198 civil servants to be taken for disciplinary and criminal action”.
Zulu said if government officials refused to sign an acknowledgment of debt the Criminal Procedure Act will be invoked.
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