By Everson Luhanga
For every name given by the alleged con man — Dr. Ncube or Dr. Chele — he also gave a fabricated hometown.
It is unclear where the man we refer to as Ncube is from. All we know is that during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, the alleged con man set about acquiring a South African ID.
Here’s how he did it.
While allegedly posing as a doctor, he met a woman who told him she needed medical attention.
After examining her and providing medication, Ncube told his unsuspecting patient that he wanted to surprise her by buying her a house on her 60th birthday.
It is not your average doctor-patient relationship, but she accepted anyway.
The woman was overwhelmed with joy, but little did she know this was all an elaborate ploy so that Ncube could go about acquiring an ID – and a family.
He asked for the woman’s ID so that he could start the process of buying her a dream house. The woman, trusting the fake doctor, handed over her ID book. She didn’t know that he would allegedly claim, using her ID, that she was his mother.
The bogus doctor then allegedly found a man to pose as his father and the two set out to apply for an ID for Ncube at the Department of Home Affairs in Randfontein, westrand.
Scrolla.Africa has learned that Ncube’s “mother and father” have, to this day, never met.
Ncube then needed the help of someone else. He apparently enlisted the help of a woman working at Home Affairs. The woman, Charlotte Bens allegedly told him that he should start by acquiring an unabridged birth certificate.
The official told him that he needed to identify himself as 16 in order to apply, and he followed her instructions.
With the help of his “mother”, “father” and a friend at the department of Home Affairs, Ncube eventually got hold of the birth certificate and then the genuine South African ID of a 16-year-old.
Shortly after he was arrested, police discovered Ncube’s ID. They tried to trace his “father” but found he is now missing. And his mother? He told authorities that his mother is in Swaziland and he doesn’t have her phone number.
The Home Affairs official who helped him, Bens, has been arrested. She is facing fraud charges.
Gauteng provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Mavela Masondo confirmed that after an investigation, Bens was traced and arrested at her home in Randfontein’s Toekomsrus on 26 October.
Bens did not only help the bogus doctor attain his unabridged birth certificate. She stands accused of helping hundreds of other people to get fraudulent South African identity documents. Scrolla.Africa has a list of 331 people who acquired their IDs through Bens.
Most of the applications were approved when South Africa was in Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.
Lt-Col Masondo said at the moment police are looking for all the people who have acquired their IDs through Bens.
Ncube is facing 12 criminal charges. He appeared in court on 6 November and Gauteng police detectives have asked for assistance from their counterparts in Mpumalanga to help trace the fake doctor’s “father”.
More about his life on the run is revealed in Part Three.
Pictures above: Dr Kingsley Chele also known Dr Kingsley Ncube
Image source: Supplied
