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DoL: Labour on sentencing of Hilson Thembinkosi Nxumalo for defrauding Compensation Fund

DoL: Labour on sentencing of Hilson Thembinkosi Nxumalo for defrauding Compensation Fund

12th February 2016

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Hilson Thembinkosi Nxumalo (37), who is wheel-chair bound, was cautioned and discharged after pleading guilty to defrauding the Department of Labour’s Compensation Fund today in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court.

Nxumalo was facing a charge of theft. Nxumalo of Rondebult near Germiston in Gauteng was out on a bail of R1000-00. He is alleged to have defrauded the Department of Labour of R5 400. He was accused of misrepresentation by using someone’s identity document (ID) to secure a job. He later got injured at work using the borrowed ID and lodged a successful claim with the department’s Compensation Fund.

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The ID was later found not to be his as he was claiming under a false name, and payment was stopped.

The defence pleaded for a lighter sentence as the paraplegic (Nxumalo) was said to be a first time offender, unemployed and now that  he was wheel-chair bound because of his injuries he had slim chances of securing employment.  

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The Compensation Fund is a public entity under the administration of Department of Labour responsible to cover workers injured during work or who sustain diseases during the course of their occupation.


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