Mike Sandlana, the leader of a faction of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) − whose nationality is also a subject of police investigation − has three dubious IDs, one registered on a date that does not exist. These revelations were laid bare on Wednesday at the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Court, where he wasapplying for bailfor allegations of corruption, money laundering, and bribing a judge to rule in his favour in a long-standing church succession dispute. The issue about his three questionable IDs is contained in the affidavit by investigating officer Lt-Col Ludi Schenelle.
The SAPS and open-source trace reports have records of the applicant having identity number 610215…and 660215… Schenelle told the court two of the three identity numbers were being investigated by the home affairs department. The department, however, did not have to probe the third ID due to its obviously nonexistent date of February 29 1969.
“I have determined that the applicant has two identity numbers. “I have [also] obtained the following records from home affairs: An extract from birth register has shown that a late registration of birth was made for the applicant in 1980. The birth register reflects that he was born on February 29 1969 in Moretele, North West.
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“I have established that this date did not exist, as 1969 was not a leap year, and that the month of February 1969 ended on the 28th,” said Schenelle. According to an affidavit obtained from home affairs’ civic service supervisor Marilyn Ndhlovu, in 1993, Sandlana applied for rectification from February 1969 to 1966 and it was approved. In 2010 he again approached home affairs for another rectification from 1966 to 1961, and the application was also granted.
“The department was not aware of the 1993 rectification due to technical limitations; no history on the system of 1993 could be detected. However, [an] investigation was conducted after the request, and the 1993 file was retrieved from the departmental archives under identity number 690228… “The information confirmed that this is one and the same person from all identity numbers mentioned above.
Furthermore, the analysis done on the two Bophuthatswana birth certificates submitted appears to have been tampered.. [as] the details on the certificates differ. However, the document serial numbers are the same. All these birth certificates submitted do not correspond with the original birth register of 1980.” Sandlana, through his lawyer Adv Christo Meiring, told the court he had two identities and blamed home affairs for recording his birth date wrong when he applied for an ID.
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