Uncovered by two-first year computer science students, 300 000 IDs were queried against the SRD system, showing that almost 75 000 of those IDs were used in SRD applications.
These IDs all belong to people born in February 2005. While StatsSA data shows that 82 000 people were born within that month, this means there was a 91 application rate of people born in that month - a highly questionable figure.
While Sassa initially admitted that widespread fraud exists, it later denied the claims from the report, insisting on the effectiveness of its cybersecurity countermeasures.
