The Minister of Home Affairs' plan to clean up corruption in the department

[mylesillidge]

"The system is down" — Home Affairs officials deliberately destroying systems

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told City Press that he will suspend or arrest everyone in his department if that’s what it takes to clean up the rampant corruption that has taken root.

Motsoaledi said that he’d heard the sardonic jokes that he would have to fire two-thirds of the staff at Home Affairs to get rid of corruption.

 

[VooDooC]

Yeah I'm sure you will

 

[Gazg]

Dont you just love these mbb articles.......

 

[_TrXtR_]

Dont you just love these mbb articles.......

Beats the pay walled original

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

ffs, now things will go even slower, only way to get a home affairs official to pull finger is to bribe them, take away the bribes and they go from doing basically f-all all day to doing absolutely sweet f-all all day

 

[chrisc]

Home Affairs is one of hundreds of non-performing SOEs.
Lets see if anything does in fact happen
The suspended bosses will run to their lawyers to get reinstated with compensation

 

[lkswan747]

Good Luck!

 

[r00igev@@r]

Protect me from myself, please.

 

[TelkomUseless]

lol... more lip service.

 

[Howdy]

lol... more lip disservice.

 

[zoozi]

Stating the obvious but this country has such a vile level of corruption, thievery, crime, laziness and incompetence in every bloody government politician, agency, SOE, in society at large. I guess it just hit me on a deeper level today. A culture of it woven absolutely everywhere, the depth of it just dumbfounding, it's really impressive actually how far it extends. **** this place is hopeless.

 

[B-1]

I'd be surprised if it's only 2/3. Saw first hand many years ago already how people who gave a damn were actively attacked and chased out of dha to be replaced by scum. Much the same happened to other government departments over the years. You don't change that situation by firing a few examples.

 

[rh1]

Read title, checks date, I must be in the wrong time zone, the 1st of April came early.

 

[FiestaST]

Yup, system is down.

 

[Mekon]

Just got my sons ID applied for this last week as he is in matric. What an utter fiasco. Last year during November and December we were turned away 3 times because of the offline Bullshyt excuse and during this last week after 7 hours of queuing we got the fingerprints done only to have to come back the next morning and do it all again because the system went offline around 2:15. on both days only 1 counter open to process the applications and 1 counter open for collections. So 6 counters not in use. The cANCer are all about efficiency.........African efficiency

 

[Mekon]

Stating the obvious but this country has such a vile level of corruption, thievery, crime, laziness and incompetence in every bloody government politician, agency, SOE, in society at large. I guess it just hit me on a deeper level today. A culture of it woven absolutely everywhere, the depth of it just dumbfounding, it's really impressive actually how far it extends. **** this place is hopeless.

And the clowns that keep voting for the useless chief and his vermin are happy to wallow in the crap

 

[ToxicBunny]

May as well just do that now Aaron... 2/3rds is an optimistic figure.. I'd say between 90 and 95% of HA employees are lazy or corrupt.

 

[Vrotappel]

 

[theratman]

Just got my sons ID applied for this last week as he is in matric. What an utter fiasco. Last year during November and December we were turned away 3 times because of the offline Bullshyt excuse and during this last week after 7 hours of queuing we got the fingerprints done only to have to come back the next morning and do it all again because the system went offline around 2:15. on both days only 1 counter open to process the applications and 1 counter open for collections. So 6 counters not in use. The cANCer are all about efficiency.........African efficiency

Sounds like the usual home affairs nonsense. Why not try do it through the banks?

 

[Mekon]

Sounds like the usual home affairs nonsense. Why not try do it through the banks?

It is all done now. We did for a while. You have to book a "slot" online which seems impossible and the nearest banks that do this to us are in Centurion which is over 50 km away.