Former Home Affairs employee sentenced to five years imprisonment for using South African's details for foreign national's passports.
Former Home Affairs employee sentenced to five years imprisonment for using South African's details for foreign national's passports.A former administration clerk at the Department of Home Affairs in Cleary Park, in the Eastern Cape, has been sentenced to five years direct imprisonment for passport fraud.
She was initially arrested in a “sting operation” after she attempted to bribe a Home Affairs Counter–Crime officer with R10 00.“All the affected passports were red-flagged, meaning that anyone who tries to use these fraudulent documents at a port of entry will be immediately arrested,” said Communications Chief Director Siya Qoza.
It is alleged that Zuma was recruited into this scheme by another former Home Affairs official, Zima Shange, who was sentenced to an effective 10 years imprisonment in October 2023.Njabulo Nzuza welcomed the arrest
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