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HOME AFFAIRS OFFICIALS ROB SA BLIND
The Mercury
|March 02, 2026
THERE is something very wrong at the Department of Home Affairs.
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While most South Africans struggle to pay bills, some government officials are getting rich by selling visas and passports to foreign nationals.This must stop and those who did it must go to jail. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has found a group of Home Affairs officials running a corruption syndicate. These are people who took an oath to serve the public, but instead they chose to serve themselves. According to the SIU, four officials earning less than R25 000 per month received over R16 million in bribes. How does someone earning R25 000 build a mansion? The answer is simple: they sold our country.
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