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The former treasurer of a Hankey NGO caring for orphans with HIV and Aids, has been jailed for 8 years for fraud.
Lindall Plaaitjies was sentenced in the Port Elizabeth commercial crimes court on Friday in terms of a plea agreement.
The state alleged that she had acted in common purpose with another official and a social worker to defraud the Department of Social Development, which funds the Ethembeni Community Organisation.
State prosecutor, Lionel Kroon, says Nompumulelo Kila, a chief social worker in the Department of Social Development, is also on trial for her role in the matter.
