{"id":2629,"date":"2012-10-07T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T10:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2012-10-07T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T10:26:21","slug":"black-doctor-writes-fake-death-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Black doctor writes fake death certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/black_doctor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2630\" title=\"black_doctor\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/black_doctor-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/black_doctor-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/black_doctor.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Six people, including a doctor, will appear in a Durban court next week after allegedly faking a death to collect life insurance, police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spokesman captain Thulani Zwane said they used a stolen identity document, belonging to Mandisa Mkhwebula, without her knowledge, to take out death cover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;After nine months of paying monthly premiums, they declared her dead and prepared the necessary documents with home affairs, a funeral parlour and a doctor to enable them to claim,&#8221; Zwane said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three sisters, Zodwa Ngcobo, Thulile Madondo and Zandile Linda, and their two accomplices, Sibongiseni Thabethe and Brian Khumalo, were out on R2500 bail each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thabethe, arrested in a pub in central Durban, and Khumalo, who was arrested in Pinetown, apparently provided most of the documentation used to commit the fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 47-year-old Isipingo doctor was alleged to have supplied the blank BI 1663 death notification form to the sisters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is alleged that he sold blank BI 1663 to people who wanted to lodge fraudulent claims,&#8221; Zwane said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five people would appear before the Durban Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday, while the doctor would appear separately. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people, including a doctor, will appear in a Durban court next week after allegedly faking a death to collect life insurance, police said on Saturday. Spokesman captain Thulani Zwane said they used a stolen identity document, belonging to Mandisa Mkhwebula, without her knowledge, to take out death cover. &#8220;After nine months of paying monthly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black doctor writes fake death certificate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,1657,1009,1656,12250],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-death-certificate","tag-durban","tag-isipingo","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/black_doctor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}