Home Affairs Cape Town Barrack Street

jezzad

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Most days on the way to work I walk past home affairs in Cape Town on Barrack street.

The queue lengths vary considerably.

If anyone wants to know what they look like on a particular day feel free to send me a direct message. Ill carry on doing this and try be helpful until it becomes an absolute pain.
 

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Is there a pattern with certain days consistently having shorter queues?
 

jezzad

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Is there a pattern with certain days consistently having shorter queues?

The only pattern I have noticed is that on insanely busy days the next day its completely empty.

Late afternoon also seems much better than first thing in the morning.
 

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Most days on the way to work I walk past home affairs in Cape Town on Barrack street.

The queue lengths vary considerably.

If anyone wants to know what they look like on a particular day feel free to send me a direct message. Ill carry on doing this and try be helpful until it becomes an absolute pain.

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Most days on the way to work I walk past home affairs in Cape Town on Barrack street.

The queue lengths vary considerably.

If anyone wants to know what they look like on a particular day feel free to send me a direct message. Ill carry on doing this and try be helpful until it becomes an absolute pain.

Good morning Jeremy. Hope I'm not being too much of a pain, have you any idea what the queue is like today? Many thanks
 

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Hi everyone,

I have to go to DHA tomorrow, can someone please let me know where there is a parkade close by?

Thanks
 

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This thread caused a flashback to my torrid past, Use to help my China's bribe officials way back....
 

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Well, I found a great solution: I parked at the Portswood parkade at the V&A (3CV9+96 Cape Town), and then Ubered to & from Barrack St.

Parking for 3 hours cost R15, and Uber was R80 in total, but very worth it for the hassle-free factor. On top of that, the parkade has a carwash, so the Rangie got a much-needed scrub down for R95 while it was parked.
 

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Well, I found a great solution: I parked at the Portswood parkade at the V&A (3CV9+96 Cape Town), and then Ubered to & from Barrack St.

Parking for 3 hours cost R15, and Uber was R80 in total, but very worth it for the hassle-free factor. On top of that, the parkade has a carwash, so the Rangie got a much-needed scrub down for R95 while it was parked.
There is a parkade in Corporation st, one block from DHA.
 

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Well, I found a great solution: I parked at the Portswood parkade at the V&A (3CV9+96 Cape Town), and then Ubered to & from Barrack St.

Parking for 3 hours cost R15, and Uber was R80 in total, but very worth it for the hassle-free factor. On top of that, the parkade has a carwash, so the Rangie got a much-needed scrub down for R95 while it was parked.

Wow, what a waste of money and time.

There is plenty parking around the DHA. You could park in Harrington street or near fruit & veg which is literally a block or two away. Parking in Canterbury street too. There's also a paid parking garage in Buitenkant street.
 

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R95 a waste of money? lol, that's not even half of my daily wine spend

Didn't know about the one on Buitenkant, I may try that next time.
 

jezzad

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No queue at the moment, not sure if that means their systems are down.
 

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Hi Jezzad, just came across your posts here. Would it be a good idea to try go to DHA Barrack street around lunch time?
 

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Hi Jezzad, just came across your posts here. Would it be a good idea to try go to DHA Barrack street around lunch time?
If you want to apply for a passport or ID you need to be there early in the morning. For a collection lunch time would be fine. DHA take a limited number of applicants per day and by 7 in the morning you can expect a good line people waiting outside the offices.
 
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