Social Development minister Zola Skweyiya has revealed that an investigation is being carried out by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in collaboration with the SAPS Commercial Crime Unit into a welfare scam in the Mthatha area and that five people have already been arrested.
Skweyiya said his department was not able to confirm the extent of the fraud but that into addition to the arrest of five people in February, about 70 original birth certificates and clinic cards together with copies of identity documents had been found during the search.
He said that from the birth certificates SASSA had identified, 56 individuals who were receiving grants for one or more children that were registered at Home Affairs. The registration turned out to be false.
Skweyiya said one of the accused had turned State witness and had supplied valuable information.
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