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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Njabulo Nzuza said that rooting out corruption in the department was a costly exercise but one it believed was worth pursuing.<\/p>\n

He said that the elimination of the green barcoded identity document would go a long way to reducing fraud.<\/p>\n

The department on Tuesday briefed Parliament’s portfolio committee on the progress it was making in rooting out the rot.<\/p>\n

Nzuza said that fraudulent identity documents issued to foreign nationals were having widespread consequences on the country’s fiscus.<\/p>\n

He said just by one person introducing 1,000 children into the population register costs the fiscus millions in social grants and other benefits.<\/p>\n

“They find ways to get into DNA labs, and do DNA swaps, which means the results come back of a foreign child which must be accepted because of the father, but it\u2019s not the real child.”<\/p>\n

He said that so far, 30 million records had been digitised but there was a long way to go.<\/p>\n

“We have to eliminate the green barcoded ID. As soon as we do that, then we can move into the digital [space]. So, we are working on that.”<\/p>\n

The department says it plans to conclude at least 28 disciplinary matters instituted against officials implicated in the fraudulent issuing of documents in this financial year.<\/p>\n

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