The Home Affairs officials were axed for a range of offences including fraud, corruption and sexual harassment.
The Department of Home Affairs has dismissed what is called 18 “crooked” officials, effective immediately, for a range of offences including fraud, corruption and sexual harassment.
“The dismissals follow from a series of recent convictions and reflect the intensification of cooperation between the department the Special Investigating Unit and the Hawks.“Where prosecutable offences have been committed, the dockets will be referred for criminal prosecution, while Home Affairs also continues to work on measures to recover ill-gotten gains from perpetrators,” Essau said.
“The days where acts of fraud and corruption are committed with impunity against Home Affairs, are over. Dismissals and prosecutions are set to continue ramping up until we have squeezed crime and corruption out of the system,” Schreiber said. “Those who cheapen and defraud our country are learning the hard way that there is nowhere to hide from a reinvigorated Home Affairs that is committed to upholding the rule of law and delivering dignity,” said Schreiber.
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