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Fraudsters saddle Soweto woman with huge tax debt

Victim fears losing her home from identity theft

Noxolo Sibiya Journalist

An unemployed Soweto woman has fallen victim to identity fraud and now the SA Revenue Service (SARS) is claiming that she owes it more than R822,000 in taxes.

Zanele Tabane, 53, who lives in a four-roomed house in Protea Glen Ext 13, said her family depends on her husband’s monthly pension grant of R1,800 and earnings from odd jobs she gets...

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