"They were suspended for producing documents and selling them to the people," she said.
They were suspended in November and criminal charges would be pressed against them should the need arise after investigation.
Dlamini-Zuma said officials fraudulently registered marriages and deaths.
"This is done with a view to make fraudulent insurance claims or acquiring citizenship. This is mostly through collusion by the public and our own corrupt officials," she said.
She urged South Africans to show a greater sense of patriotism by not selling their citizenship, by registering births within 30 days, and by valuing their identity documents.
She said another problem facing the department was the high number of requests for the re-issue of documents.
While some of the applications were legitimate, such as applying to change marital status, others were mostly due to negligence.
Dlamini-Zuma said the electronic track and trace system for documents had been extended to cover not only identity documents and passports, but also amendments, citizenship, and late registration of birth.
"This means that customers are now able to trace the status of their applications on all the above functions as well."
She said permanent residence and temporary residence permit applications were about to be added to this list, as a successful pilot had been concluded.
A national campaign to ensure the registration of all births and marriages, as well as issuing of identity documents to all citizens at the age of 16, would be launched countrywide in January 2010.
"The aim of the campaign is to consolidate a secure and credible national population register in this regard, protecting the integrity of the birth certificate, as the main base document for identity in South Africa," she said.
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