Kaya News Reporter
Thousands of fraudulent home affairs documents were discovered in the Johannesburg CBD.
This comes after Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi issuing a statement that he will be cleaning up his department.
The Minister says he will take action on every official who is involved in corruption after he found discrepancies and missing files and documents.
Three senior home affairs officials received suspension letters in December for gross negligence.
The three officials reportedly failed to execute court orders involving payouts of R11 million to junior staff who were supposed to be fired.
On Monday, an anonymous tip-off led investigators to a flat in the JHB CBD, where thousands of fraudulent home affairs documents were found.
Documents included South African passports, IDs, visas and birth certificates.
According to reports, it is believed that the person involved in the fake documents is a home affairs official.
Illegal immigrants pay the home affairs official large sums of money for the fraudulent documents.
The discovery of the fraudulent documents puts xenophobia in the country back in the spotlight.
With no indication of how many fake South African citizenships were acquired from the corrupt operation in the CBD, this raises concerns over the state of citizenship law.
The process to seek citizenship in South Africa is a lengthy one and many foreign nationals who are living and working have special exemption visas.
Several home affairs employees have been linked to corruption and Minister Motsoaledi says each one will answer, even if he has to dismiss two-thirds of his staff contingent to stamp out corruption.
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