The Department of Home Affairs and the Hawks have further investigated an identity fraud case involving former Miss South Africa finalist, Chidimma Adesina.
The model withdrew from the competition after police discovered her mother had stolen the personal details of innocent women years ago.
The Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that three officials involved in corruption had been identified, one of whom has died.
The innocent mother, who was a victim of identity fraud, was also identified.
The mother, born in 1982, applied for an identity card in Tshwane in 1995. When she went to collect her card in Tshwane, officials told her she would receive it in Johannesburg, where she had not applied.
She later gave birth to a child in 2001. When she tried to register the birth of her child, she was informed that a child had already been registered under her ID number – Adetosina.
The mother spent months trying to obtain a birth certificate for her child. Eventually, authorities issued her a new ID number and she was finally able to register her child.
The Department of Home Affairs said it had visited the mother in Tshwane whose identity document was stolen and that details on her first identity document matched the Department of Home Affairs' records of Ms Adesina's mother.
Lawyer Constance Moitse, head of the Interior Ministry's anti-corruption unit, told MPs that Adetosina's mother was yet to respond to the letter even after the investigation.
“Her response to this letter will be crucial in determining the authorities' final decision regarding the validity of the identification documents she currently holds.”
Meanwhile, Chidinma Adesina has been told that if she was born in South Africa she would need to apply for a new identity document.