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Justice Minister Mamoloko Kubayi held a public hearing in KaBokweni, Mpumalanga.
The Justice Department says more than R80 million of unclaimed child maintenance funds are sitting in their coffers.
The department has embarked on a process to track people who claimed child maintenance and wants them to visit the department’s offices to get their money.
Holding a public hearing in KaBokweni, Mpumalanga, Justice Minister Mamoloko Kubayi said: “Firstly, we are encouraging mothers or parents of children who are receiving the maintenance money to agree that this money must go directly into the accounts, because banks allow for you to open an account for a child so that money can go into that account, can be access easily and quickly.”
“So the problem currently is that the money is paid directly to the department and then it sits there, it’s about R84-million across, so what I have instructed officials is that now we must do track and tracing, it’s a lot of resources for us as the department to be able to find the parents with the money and all those thing,” adds Kubayi.
