MBABANE:Sipho Nelson Tsabedze, the dismissed Principal Secretary(PS) in the Ministry of Public Service who allegedly forged his date of birth to avoid retirement earned sixty-eight thousand, five hundred and fifty-nine Rands, eighty four cents(R68,559.84) as his last January 2025 salary in public office.
This is contained in his payslip sourced from the Government Computer System within the Ministry of Finance, Treasury Department.
The PS was dismissed by the Civil Service Commission(CSC) this week subsequent to an investigative story published by this Swaziland News and soon thereafter, the CSC conducted an independent enquiry that confirmed the allegations.He declined to comment about the matter when contacted by this Swaziland News.
It has been disclosed that, for the past two(2) years, the PS who was allegedly born on the 1st January 1963 and was supposed to retire on the 1st January 2023, has been fraudulently receiving the undue salaries amounting to over sixty thousand(R60,000.00) per-month.
This means,apart from forging the date of birth to 27th November 1967, the Principal Secretary went on to defraud the State over R1.2million in undue salaries and as a result, might face possible fraud and corruption criminal charges.
A payslip for dismissed PS Sipho Tsabedze.