Public servant arrested for being an 'illegal immigrant' released on warning

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Kebone Masange, 52, the head of department at the province's human settlements department, appeared in the Pretoria magistrate’s court on Thursday on a charge of fraud.

“According to the national population register, Masange was issued with three different identity documents on different dates.”

“That was at odds with the Southern African Development Community amnesty that states that to qualify an applicant needed to have continuously lived in South Africa since July 1991.

 

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