Home Affairs considering offering premium service to fast-track document applications

[Daniel Puchert]

Home Affairs planning fast-tracked premium service

The Department of Home Affairs is considering launching a premium service that would allow South Africans to pay extra to fast-track their document applications.

This is according to Thomas Sigama, the Deputy Director-General for Civic Services at Home Affairs, who was answering questions before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.

 

[B-1]

Wow, talk about going against the spirit of what government should be.

 

[r00igev@@r]

The Nigerians will create a new scheme.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

might as well make those bribes official, yes ...

this kind of thing can work btw, if you've ever had a UK visa you know there's a fee to expedite, in Latvia pretty much all applications have an option to officially expedite

mind you that is to get the document in 1 day instead of 3, heaven knows how much ZA will charge to get a document in one year instead of never

 

[My_King]

Hos ja, GNU licensensees showing us their true colours

 

[wingnut771]

How is this different to bribing your way to the front?

 

[SlowInternet]

So we have to pay extra for them to do their actual job?

 

[wingnut771]

So we have to pay extra for them to do their actual job?

It seems so. Why if you can have something in one day now take three? How many man hours does a passport or a birth certificate or whatever take? 10 mins?

 

[RedViking]

Varke

 

[FiestaST]

I’m asking the same Q:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1853306413306577204

 

[Quicks]

Who's bright idea was this? Legalizing corruption now as well.

 

[Sagax]

And to whom exactly are these premiums going to go to?
The staff member attending to the application as an incentive to roll up their sleeves and work a bit faster?
Centre management?
The DHA minister?
Social grants?

 

[Fuzzbox]

Paying more for a service that should be quick already.
Not on

 

[konfab]

Wow, talk about going against the spirit of what government should be.

A wealth extraction organisation for the people who have guns?

It is exactly in that spirit fam.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

legalized theft? or copying MR-D and Sixty sixty with premium memberships to get things to you just a bit faster, if you pay a tiny amount monthly.

 

[Former member 61586]

Who's bright idea was this? Legalizing corruption now as well.

The party that are experts at revenue generation.

 

[LazyLion]

And once again the ANC screws over the poor people of South Africa and caters to the rich and wealthy.

The exact opposite of what they claimed they stood for....

 

[LandyMan]

So our taxes pay their salaries, and now we have to pay again for them to do their jobs. Well done SA, you win!

 

[Paul Kemp]

And once again the ANC screws over the poor people of South Africa and caters to the rich and wealthy.

The exact opposite of what they claimed they stood for....

Batho Pele.

 

[Shadowchaser1]

Still wonder why some international companies don't want to do business in SA?