A MFULENI sangoma went undercover and bust a man who was selling fake sick notes.
Sangoma Mavusi Gqola said he heard that there was a person who advertised sick notes on Facebook with a profile picture of their local clinic.
Mavusi and his three other colleagues hatched a plan to catch the man. They went undercover and called the man, pretending as if they wanted a sick note.
The man told them that he was in Eestriver, but they must send him the details which they wanted to be written on the sick note. Mavusi sent the details and the money, and the asked only an hour to process everything since he had to go and stamp it Gugulethu. He was charging R200 for the sick note.
“I’m a committee member for the clinic board and we received a complaint from a concerned resident about a person who is selling sick notes on Facebook, which are advertised using the picture of the clinic. We followed it up and we bust the man. If he was using his name we wouldn’t have bothered, but using the pictures of the clinic was wrong,” Mavusi said.
He said when they bust the man, he told them that he was only using the picture to attract customers.
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“We told him to come to Mfuleni Shoprite with the sick note. We knew the cop shop was just next door. When he arrived we asked him to get inside the car since we wanted to go fetch the money. We then drove him to the cop shop, it was only then when he realised that he was under arrest,” said Mavusi.
Cops spokesman Captain Frederick Van Wyk confirmed the incident.
“This office would like to confirm that a fraud case docket was registered for investigation. A 29-year-old male was arrested on Tuesday, 2022-09-13, and he made his first appearance on Thursday, 2022-09-15 in the Blue Downs Magistrates Court. The case was postponed for bail information and he remains in custody. His next court appearance will be on Thursday, 2022-09-22,” said Van Wyk.
