Cops arrested for corruption in Free State

[LazyLion]

Nine police officers were arrested, along with seven other people, for fraud and corruption at the Caledonspoort border post on Tuesday, the Hawks said.

Spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko said of the seven, six were immigration officers and one an official from the health department.

The officials allegedly allowed people to enter the country from Lesotho without documents and charged them R150 each.

"In some instances taxi drivers delivered passports at the port of entry to be stamped, in order to extend the days of holders in SA, at a fee of R150," he said.

"This had been orchestrated for a long time. The officials were able to make over R100,000 per day. At one instance officials shared R200,000."

He said people without passports arrived at the border in a bus and a police officer entered the bus and counted them.

"Each person was charged R150 or R200 and the bus was allowed to enter SA."

Details of their court appearance were not immediately available.


Source : Sapa /mm/jje/dd/jk
Date : 07 May 2013 16:08

 

[LazyLion]

Apparently this kind of thing is very common at ALL border posts around SA, especially Beit Bridge.
Speaking to some guys who did some work for me, it is a well known fact that you need R1000 bribe money to enter into South Africa through Beit Bridge.

 

[Hemi300c]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/528256-Border-cops-make-R100k-a-day

 

[marine1]

South Africa must be one of the most corrupt countries on the planet

 

[R13...]

South Africa must be one of the most corrupt countries on the planet

By what measure?

There's even a picture,
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results

 

[marine1]

By what measure?

There's even a picture,
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results

By the daily reports of corruption and these reports are only the ones we hear about.
You can almost guarantee that when approached by a gvt official, you will be asked for money

 

[wikk3d88]

By the daily reports of corruption and these reports are only the ones we hear about.
You can almost guarantee that when approached by a gvt official, you will be asked for money

You're wrong and you know it

 

[marine1]

You're wrong and you know it

Lol, really? Maybe you should tell the people of South Africa they are seeing things

 

[LazyLion]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/528256-Border-cops-make-R100k-a-day

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/528244-Cops-arrested-for-corruption-in-Free-State

 

[Redeemed]

By the daily reports of corruption and these reports are only the ones we hear about.
You can almost guarantee that when approached by a gvt official, you will be asked for money

There's a lot of work that needs to be done but we are not as bad as you might think. We are not worse off compared to the likes of the Argentinians, Greeks, Italians, Russians, Indians, Brazillians, Chinese and so forth.

 

[LazyLion]

There's a lot of work that needs to be done but we are not as bad as you might think. We are not worse off compared to the likes of the Argentinians, Greeks, Italians, Russians, Indians, Brazillians, Chinese and so forth.

On the contrary, most of the South Africans I talk to say that this country is beyond the point of fixing things (or at least as long as the ANC is in control). And those are mostly Black South Africans saying that.

 

[marine1]

There's a lot of work that needs to be done but we are not as bad as you might think. We are not worse off compared to the likes of the Argentinians, Greeks, Italians, Russians, Indians, Brazillians, Chinese and so forth.

Problem I have with stats, they rarely show the real problems on the ground. How many cases are never reported or investigated? I think we are far worse than these stats show. Just go drive around, break a traffic law and see what some money will do, its unfortunately the way things are. I doubt very much that you could get away with this sort of thing in China for example

 

[Redeemed]

Problem I have with stats, they rarely show the real problems on the ground. How many cases are never reported or investigated? I think we are far worse than these stats show.

I think that would apply to all countries surveyed so it evens out.

 

[wikk3d88]

On the contrary, most of the South Africans I talk to say that this country is beyond the point of fixing things (or at least as long as the ANC is in control). And those are mostly Black South Africans saying that.

Anecdotal evidence > empirical research?

It would be foolish to deny we have a corruption problem but we are certainly not that far down the garden path

 

[marine1]

I think that would apply to all countries surveyed so it evens out.

Look at the newspapers of the countries, what people on the ground say, then you will get a better understanding of what is really going on.
Every single day our papers are filled with yet another scandal.

 

[Redeemed]

On the contrary, most of the South Africans I talk to say that this country is beyond the point of fixing things (or at least as long as the ANC is in control). And those are mostly Black South Africans saying that.

Well your article shows the contrary, that things are being fixed.

 

[Redeemed]

Look at the newspapers of the countries, what people on the ground say, then you will get a better understanding of what is really going on.
Every single day our papers are filled with yet another scandal.

Scandals being exposed? Good.

 

[Redeemed]

Anecdotal evidence > empirical research?

It would be foolish to deny we have a corruption problem but we are certainly not that far down the garden path

Exactly, and we are a much newer democracy compared to some of the countries we are doing better than. With time we will be much higher on that list.

 

[marine1]

Scandals being exposed? Good.

Until the secrecy bill comes into play

 

[Zenbaas]

Until the secrecy bill comes into play

Yeah things will be "improving" from here on in like it or not. Where do we feature on the global scale with regards to perceived corruption? Wasn't there a website (corruption watch or something?)...