A Limpopo woman who recruited 15 people to lie about living with disabilities to get social grant payments is the first of a larger group who ran a scam netting R300,000 to be jailed.
The South African Social Security Agency was defrauded of hundreds of thousands of rand in fraudulent grant application scheme.
For two years, Angelina Morongwe, 45, recruited people to lie about living with physical disabilities to get South African Social Security Agency grant payments.Hawks spokesperson Capt Matimba Maluleke told TimesLIVE Morongwe was a middleman in the syndicate that also involved three Sassa officials from the Tzaneen branch.“The accused conspired with three officials to recruit people from local communities to apply for disability grants though they were not disabled,” Maluleke said.
“During the investigation, it was discovered that after recruiting members of the public, Sassa officials would process the applications and the money would be paid to the beneficiaries.
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