Tag: home affairs

The days of queuing at the Home Affairs offices may become a thing of the past very soon. Through Home Affairs' online application system...

While South Africans await confirmation of the date for the 2016 local election, the Department of Home Affairs has urged citizens to make sure they have the correct identity documentation needed to vote, as well as to remember to register in their wards this weekend.

South African citizens will be able to apply for their smart card ID cards at Home Affairs kiosks in FNB and Standard Bank branches as part of a pilot project set to start in April, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said at a media briefing on Tuesday.

The Department of Home Affairs has cut down the time it takes to produce a new ID to just over two months, added a track and trace facility for applications, and will soon introduce a pilot project for smart ID cards.

South Africa has launched a Braille version of the Department of Home Affairs "Know your Home Affairs Services" brochure and other improtant documents, to better cater for blind people and ensure that they do not have to rely on others to access government services.

Home Affairs has the reputation of being SA's most dysfunctional government department. A hundred days into his job, the department's top technocrat, Mavuso Msimang, outlines his plans to turn the organisation around - within the space of a year.