Home Affairs ‘systematically rooting out corruption,’ Schreiber says
“The Department of Home Affairs remains unwavering in its commitment to rooting out corruption, protecting the integrity of South Africa’s identity system and holding accountable anyone who seeks to undermine it.”” This comes after two former Department of Home Affairs officials and four members of the public were arrested in connection with alleged fraud and corruption relating to the irregular issuance of a late registration of births.
The two suspects, aged 37 and 40, were handcuffed on Sunday, 26 July 2026, by the Hawks’ Anti‑Corruption Unit in Thohoyandou following a Department of Home Affairs Counter Corruption investigation into an incident allegedly committed on 10 July 2019 at the Malamulele office.
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