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Home Affairs worker who faked peoples’ deaths jailed for FIVE years

Summary by The South African
Former Home Affairs worker, Dawn Celeste Pieterson (46), has been sentenced to five years in prison for insurance fraud. Convicted on nine counts, spanning a period from February 2019 to September 2022, Pieterson took advantage of her access to the National Population Register (NPR) and declared living people dead to claim their funeral payouts. The Calvinia Specialised Commercial Crime Court found the former Home Affairs worker guilty of nine c…

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Home Affairs worker who faked peoples’ deaths jailed for FIVE years

Former Home Affairs worker, Dawn Celeste Pieterson (46), has been sentenced to five years in prison for insurance fraud. Convicted on nine counts, spanning a period from February 2019 to September 2022, Pieterson took advantage of her access to the National Population Register (NPR) and declared living people dead to claim their funeral payouts. The Calvinia Specialised Commercial Crime Court found the former Home Affairs worker guilty of nine c…

·Johannesburg, South Africa
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The South African broke the news in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday, February 1, 2026.
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