Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says that his department is clamping down on corruption, and is arresting people on “a weekly basis” for flouting the country’s laws.
Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says his department is clamping down on corruption and is arresting people on “a weekly basis” for flouting the country’s laws., that most government departments are tackling corruption on the basis of supply chain and procurement. However, he said that with home affairs, “temptation is everywhere”.
Motsoaledi said that the government will increasingly seek to bring corrupt individuals before the courts. He pointed to the recent bust where two home affairs officials were arrested for processing over 100 documents for foreign nationals for a R1,000 fee. Four other officials were suspended. He used the example of the recent RyanAir controversy, which saw the airline quizzing local passport holders – in Afrikaans – testing their knowledge of local facts to determine if they were South African citizens.
“When our ambassador checked, she found that gentleman was from Gabon. But he’s holding a passport in the name of South Africa. This is something that is very terrible, that we cannot allow.”
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