SASSA continued to implement its zero tolerance approach to fraud and corruption. The target was to investigate 50% of fraud cases identified: Seventy eight percent (78%) of fraud cases were investigated (i.e., 4 000 out of 5 134). Ninety eight percent (98%) of suspicious grants were verified for validity (i.e. 29 780 suspicious social grants were verified for validity). The focus of the Agency's fraud management had shifted from only focusing on beneficiaries to focus on its own staff members who had colluded with beneficiaries and other organs of State, including the crime syndicates. Efforts to clamp down on syndicates in specific regions resulted in the arrest and conviction of ten Agency officials, three former Agency officials and 15 agents/touts.