{"id":44893,"date":"2023-02-23T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/former-sassa-officials-jailed-for-disability-grant-fraud"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:28:00","slug":"former-sassa-officials-jailed-for-disability-grant-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/former-sassa-officials-jailed-for-disability-grant-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Former Sassa officials jailed for disability grant fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Giyani Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Limpopo sentenced two former South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials on Tuesday to an effective five years in prison for disability grant fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Solani Agnes Baloyi, 56, and Jacob Manamela, 64, committed the fraud in January 2015 while working at the Sassa office in Tzaneen.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was reported to the Hawks after Sassa officials were alerted to the fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that the pair had recruited unemployed people from the area, who were not disabled, to apply for disability grants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The applications were successfully processed by the accused, and the payments were made to unfit beneficiaries. 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