End of an era for green ID books in South Africa

[Newsfeed]

Bad news for people with green ID books in South Africa

Home Affairs deputy director-general Tulani Mavuso said green ID books will not be a valid form of identification within two years.

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

Lets see

 

[My_King]

Just fooking do it.

The year on mine says 2016. It has been what now, been a *century.

 

[lordnokon]

I'm actually amazed the headline didn't read - "End of an Era"

 

[WanderingMind]

 

[Devon101]

When are these clowns going to make the end date official instead of saying soon?

 

[Neuk_]

 

[FiestaST]

 

[Corelli]

More than half the permanent residents still arent eligible to apply for the card, which is an easy country change on the system.


The irony is the traffic department works better and more clever than the Home Affairs.

Thats why my wife has an SA drivers license with her ID number on that she uses for her banking, etc

 

[Werner1975]

Yes we know as you have repeatedly reminded us in 10 000 previous articles !!!

 

[DreamKing]

Bad news for people with green ID books in South Africa

Home Affairs deputy director-general Tulani Mavuso said green ID books will not be a valid form of identification within two years.

do it, do it now.

 

[Werner1975]

do it, do it now.

and then, "Get to the chopper!"

 

[konfab]

There is absolutely no way this will happen btw. NGOs are going to line up and keep those old ID books valid. The high court regards watching the latest SABC slop as a constitutional right. What are they going to do when actual rights are affected.
https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPPHC/2025/321.html

 

[Swa]

Been hearing it for over a decade. What he means is they will start thinking about a date after the next two years. And in other news

South Africa’s fraud-resistant smart IDs are being forged

Police seized 6 fake smart ID cards and 22 blanks in an operation in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[biena]

Will happen when analogue TV signal is switch off which is also soon.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2099797801072726443

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

It's all right, I will wait until next week for the LLM to generate the opposite
"Good news for people with green ID books in South Africa"

 

[notinterested]

I'm actually amazed the headline didn't read - "End of an Era"

Is it the end of the 'end of an era' era? Twenty follow up articles with definitely new information coming up soon.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Is it the end of the 'end of an era' era? Twenty follow up articles with definitely new information coming up soon.

South Africa's Green ID book going from hero to zero

 

[mylesillidge]

I'm actually amazed the headline didn't read - "End of an Era"

Gotchu