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By Botho Molosankwe 
4h ago
Johannesburg – Two bogus Mpumalanga teachers have not only got criminal records for getting jobs using fraudulent documents, but have also lost a total of R 1.2 million accumulated over the years.
Sibongile Rose Khuzwayo, 50, and Nonjabulo Bahle Mabuza, 47, were each punished with 10 years in prison by the Volkrust Regional Court on Tuesday for fraud.
Their sentences were suspended for five years on the condition that they were not convicted of fraud during the period of suspension.
The two, however, accumulated a pension of 600,000 rand each of their many years as teachers, and the Hawks want the money confiscated.
Mpumalanga Hawks spokesman Capt Dineo Sekgotodo said the couple were arrested in February 2017 after an investigation revealed they were employed by the Department of Education as teachers in July 2006 using fraudulent qualifications.
At the time of the arrests, Sekgotodi said that Khuzwayo was a teacher at the Hambani Primary School, while Nonjabulo Bahle Mabuza taught at the Junior High School.
“In 2015, nine years after his unjustified employment, it came to light that there were teachers in and around Gert Sibande district who got jobs using fraudulent tertiary degrees.
In an effort to address the concern, the department issued a circular asking all educators to submit their scores for authentication.
“It was during this process that the couple did not comply and instead chose to resign. Their initial applications were vetted and the ratings were found suspicious.
“The Hawks were tasked with conducting further investigations that ultimately proved that the couple’s credentials were indeed false.
“The investigation revealed that Khuzwayo submitted a fraudulent registration certificate with a serial number belonging to a deceased person. Mabuza submitted a fraudulent bachelor’s degree in education, allegedly issued by the University of Pretoria, ”Sekgotodi said.
They were arrested and processed in a trial that ended with their sentence on Tuesday.
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