A Zimbabwean national has been arrested after attempting to get accreditation for president-elect Cyril Ramaphosa’s inauguration at the Union Buildings. Accreditation applications for the event started on Monday.
According to the spokesperson for the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NatJOINTS), Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, the Zimbabwean national approached the accreditation centre on Monday to attend the event on Wednesday.
“Our integrated systems immediately detected that this individual was using an identity document of a deceased person,” said Mathe.
The suspect has been charged with fraud and infringement of the immigration act. He is currently in police custody. The identity documents he used for the application were fraudulent, confirmed Mathe.
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