Home Affairs offices open over the weekend
Enca - 17 September 2021
Long queues and systems that are constantly offline have long plagued Home Affairs offices. It's affected many people. Home Affairs says it will be using this weekend to resolve issues just like these. Reporter Mawande Kheswa has more. Courtesy #DStv403
There are over 400,000 uncollected IDs at Home Affairs offices nationwide.
For those without these documents, there will be no way to register to vote this weekend.
Home Affairs offices will be open this weekend from 8am to 5pm to help.
“We are going to be open over the weekend so that all those who want to come and collect their ID’s they can be able to do so," said Njabulo Nzuza, Deputy Home Affairs Minister.
"Those who want to have their temporary Identity documents can also come through. Those who are having extreme case issues where they need certain things fixed on their ID’s can also come through to resolve those errors where you have duplicates and so on."