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News24 reports that a former Department of Home Affairs official has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for fraud and corruption. The Durban Magistrate's Court sentenced 44-year-old Sbulelo Malanda on Monday.
She was sentenced to four years' direct imprisonment for three counts of fraud and another four years' imprisonment for three counts of corruption. She was further sentenced to six months' imprisonment for contravention of the Immigration Act. Her sentences will run concurrently. According to a statement released by the Hawks on Wednesday, Malanda worked at the Department of Home Affairs' Umzimkhulu offices at the time the crimes were committed. "In 2017, she colluded with her accomplices and assisted the foreign nationals to obtain South African identity documents fraudulently. As a result, those foreign nationals unduly benefitted from social grants from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa)," Hawks spokesperson Captain Simphiwe Mhlongo advised. Seven people were arrested in August 2017. Malanda's accomplices were found guilty in 2018. Malanda was found guilty in June 2020.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nicole McCain at News24
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