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IOL News reports that three former employees of the Gauteng West Department of Education have been convicted and sentenced for theft and fraud after creating ghost employees and siphoning funds from the department’s payroll system.
On 2 October 2025, the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court sentenced Thaniso Ralethe 37, Kenneth Maredi Mothiang, 43, and Banyana Caroline Mokela, 50, following their convictions earlier this year. A Hawks spokesperson revealed that the trio “whilst employed by the department between the year 2014 and 2015 fraudulently created ghost employees on the department's payroll system and assigned those ghost employees to the Bekkersdal Primary School.” Their fraudulent activity came to light when the school submitted a request to the department to fill vacant posts, a process that prompted an internal review.
Ralethe was sentenced to three years imprisonment, wholly suspended for five years, on condition that he was not convicted of fraud, theft, or attempted theft during the suspension period. Maredi Mothiang received ten years imprisonment, with four years suspended on similar conditions, resulting in an effective six years in jail. Mokela was sentenced to an effective eight years imprisonment.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Wendy Dondolo at IOL News
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