South Africa has suspended dozens of immigration officials being investigated for giving South African citizenship to foreigners, mainly from Pakistan, the government said Thursday.
The move comes months after Britain started requiring visas from South Africans, charging terrorists and criminals were exploiting the availability of stolen or forged South African passports to gain access to other countries.
"The fraudulent registration of births of foreigners constitutes a serious threat to the national security of our country," South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said in a statement Thursday.
She said the scheme allowed "fraudsters" to apply for South African passports that could be used for "nefarious activities abroad."
She said that South African investigations would ensure that all those implicated "face the full might of the law."
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