Thapelo Molefe
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber said on Monday that the recent Durban Commercial Crime Court conviction and sentence imposed on former official, Judy Zuma, illustrated the insidious rot within the department.
Zuma was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for being part of a syndicate that issued fraudulent passports to foreign nationals who failed to meet the requirements to qualify for legal documents.
She was originally arrested in a sting operation after she tried to bribe a Home Affairs counter-corruption officer with R10 000. She was found to have processed 192 illegal passports between 28 May and 12 June 2021 for foreign nationals and she was paid R4 000 per passport.
She left the department in December 2021, after an internal disciplinary process.
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.
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