Parliament: Home affairs committee calls for action on Gupta naturalisation fraud By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
Parliament’s inquiry on “State Capture in Granting of Citizenship to Non-South Africans” has concluded, just shy of two years after the home affairs committee began the work of figuring out how the Gupta family qualified for South African citizenship much sooner than they should have.
Though Chawla’s application on behalf of the Guptas claimed that the family had investments totalling R25-billion in South Africa, there were no supporting documents to confirm this. It also emerged later that in cases where donations had indeed been given, the Guptas’ company Oakbay had bypassed the proper procedures by not approaching schools through the provincial Department of Education.given by the Guptas were sometimes quite meagre. In the case of Ithumeleng Secondary School in North West, the donation consisted of R1,000 for one learner, 15 soccer cones and 15 hula hoops.
In general, the committee found that their work was rendered more difficult because Home Affairs had failed to keep track of the relevant officials and documents who processed the Gupta family applications.
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