SOUTH Africa has clawed back almost R3.4-billion of irregularly paid COVID-19 jobless claims in an ongoing investigation into corruption linked to relief funds, the auditor general has revealed The TERS payments, a special jobless grant administered by the government's Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), was introduced to provide between 38% and 60% of the salary of employees laid off directly as a result of the pandemic. Minister Thulas Nxesi. Photo: GCIS But the national audit office found that parts of the 500 billion rand pandemic relief package had been exposed to varying scales of fraud, angering the public at a time…