Home Affairs clears ID application backlog

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Big win for getting your ID in South Africa

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has cleared the backlog of 247,500 ID applications that had accumulated since November 2023, eliminating a bottleneck that slowed the production of the documents.

Minister Leon Schreiber said the backlog was cleared within the space of one month. It had slowed the production value chain from the office of application to application authentication to printing and the final issuing of IDs.
 
finally, some tangible benefits for the citizens (I shouldn’t call it benefits, but service delivery rather)
 
icarusza said:
Good to see progress being made.
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The real question is why is there a backlog? I think the real problem is that in most government departments people just lazy around blaming system failures which ends up creating these so call backlogs. This is all self created bureaucracy to facilitate corruption.
 
They didn't have a single database before?
 
Stinkbeaver said:
The real question is why is there a backlog? I think the real problem is that in most government departments people just lazy around blaming system failures which ends up creating these so call backlogs. This is all self created bureaucracy to facilitate corruption.
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Chances are the piece of paper to fix everything was sitting on Aaron Motsoaledi's desk for months, but he was too busy masturbating over the NHI bill to bother signing it.
 
ProfA said:
Currently sitting at home affairs. Their has been fckall improvement in my opinion. Clusterfck of note
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That's why I will always be skeptical about praising the government's claimed efficiency, I am doubting Thomas. I will believe it when I see it or experience it myself.
 
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Is Dr Schreiber aware that there is a glitch in the passport system as well?
A bunch of passports were issued in 2019, but never signed out on the system. I you now try to renew it, your application is blocked. No way to get around it but to pester the officials for weeks.
 
ProfA said:
Currently sitting at home affairs. Their has been fckall improvement in my opinion. Clusterfck of note
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I have always said that the DA is very good at marketing, spin doctors of the highest order.

I am not saying there has not been progress but they will hype anything they touch.

There is still a lot of work to be done. I know, I renewed my passport, which expired last week, and the service was not that great.
 
PlutoForrest said:
That's why I will always be skeptical about praising the government's claimed efficiency, I am doubting Thomas. I will believe it when I see it or experience it myself.
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You can't turn a cruise liner around in a few seconds. These were the easy fixes. I think if they ever manage to do something it will take years to show.
 
Messugga said:
Cool. Now do something about the 3 month turnaround time on passport applications.
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I haven't had a passport application take that long since my first one in 2002. In 2012 it took around two weeks, and in 2022 it was less than a week.
 
Nothing exciting about the DA rolling out the NWO's new digital ID system for them.
 
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