Asylum seekers present at Pretoria's Desmond Tutu Refugee Centre during a raid by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have recounted how Home Affairs officials frustrate the application process to get people to bribe them.
The SIU simultaneously raided South Africa's five home affairs refugee centres on Friday morning as part of a corruption probe linked to the issuing of asylum and refugee papers to foreign nationals entering the country.
News24 was present at the largest refugee centre in Marabastad, Pretoria, where more than 60 home affairs officials were understood to have been identified as suspects in the investigation.