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Former Home Affairs official convicted of fraud, corruption

Cape Argus

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October 06, 2025

A FORMER Home Affairs official has been convicted of nine counts of fraud and two of contravening the Births and Deaths Registration Act in that she had fraudulently opened funeral policies on behalf of clients by using their identity numbers and adding herself as a beneficiary.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber welcomed the conviction.

Dawn Pieterson was formerly employed at the Department of Home Affairs office in Calvinia in the Northern Cape, where she abused her access to departmental records to commit fraud and corruption between February 2019 and September 2022.

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