Home Affairs Official Filmed Selling SA Documents To Foreigner

A South African official selling official identification papers from inside a state car in a parking lot in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) has gone viral, causing public fury on social media.

A white government automobile with official Eastern Cape provincial registration plates—GGL 582EC—is seen parked in an urban zone in the recorded event that took place on Thursday, 29 October 2026. Video footage shows a number of foreign people making their way to the driver’s side window, having short conversations, and then exchanging cash for official documents and administrative paperwork.

Civil society organisations, opposition parties, and anti-corruption campaigners demanded that the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) and Home Affairs Minister Dr. Leon Schreiber initiate a criminal investigation as soon as the footage went viral on digital platforms. In order to help law enforcement officials track down the government fleet car, identify its assigned driver, and confirm its dispatch location, members of the public looked up the license plate data of the vehicle.

This startling film has been released at a delicate moment for the Department of Home Affairs, which has recently ramped up its anti-corruption efforts and internal supervision in an effort to root out fake document syndicates that have been operating inside its walls. The department’s Counter Corruption Unit and other law enforcement agencies recently apprehended a number of high-ranking officials who were involved in the sale of authentic South African passports and IDs to international clients.

The corrupt civil servants’ persistence in selling identity infrastructure from official government vehicles undermines the rule of law, civic organisations pointed out, even as the leadership of Home Affairs launches high-visibility enforcement drives like Operation New Broom to arrest and deport undocumented residents. Internal administrative fraud undermines border control efforts, degrades institutional credibility, and feeds national security vulnerabilities, according to anti-corruption monitors.

Members of the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area’s community and political leaders have called for the immediate suspension of official operating vehicle GGL 582EC awaiting a formal disciplinary procedure and criminal prosecution. Citizens are demanding that the leadership of the regional branch of home affairs be immediately arrested, that all papers issued by that department be subject to forensic audits, and that there be open and honest reporting in order to show that state corruption will be met with zero tolerance.

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