Scrolla.Africa investigated one of the country’s darkest and most dangerous scams — a billion-rand scheme where criminals abuse the funeral insurance system to make easy money. In this eight-part series, Editor-at-large Everson Luhanga uncovered how fraudsters are claiming insurance money by declaring living people dead, creating fake children, stealing bodies, and even committing murder.
We exposed how syndicates work with corrupt officials at Home Affairs, mortuaries, and Sassa to pull off these crimes. We met the victims — like a pensioner who was told he was dead — and the brave investigators who are trying to stop the fraud.
If you missed any part of this powerful investigation, click here to read the full eight-part series on South Africa’s deadly funeral insurance scam.
