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Home Affairs employee guilty of faking deaths for insurance

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October 03, 2025

A FORMER employee of the Department of Home Affairs in Calvinia in the Northern Cape has been found guilty on multiple counts of fraud, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) announced yesterday.

- WENDY DONDOLO

Dawn Celeste Pieterson, 45, was convicted on Wednesday, October 1, at the Calvinia Magistrate's Court on all nine counts of fraud, as well as two counts of contravening the Birth and Death Registration Act.

The charges were read with reference to sections 99, 103, and 224 of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977.

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