The SA Smart ID Card Thread

I wish they would just bloody clarify if people that just wants to replace their ID with the smart card can actually do so! On the pic above it says people must wait for a invite, but then in another place you read you can do it, but just need to pay the R140.00. So what is it?
 
Has anyone recently got the card id, without being "invited"?
I have lost mine and need to get a new one, but don't know if I will get the green book or smartcard ID.
 
Zorchus said:
Has anyone recently got the card id, without being "invited"?
I have lost mine and need to get a new one, but don't know if I will get the green book or smartcard ID.
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Nope you'll get the new card. Just arrive. That's all. They take the picture and fill out forms. Just pay your 180 and all is good
 
Yip, did this a couple of weeks ago after my ID was stolen. Collected it 8 days later.
 
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So when will banks start issuing cards? I seem to have lost mine
 
Forget home affairs queues - just pop into bank for ID smart card

Jenni Evans, News24

Parliament - Imagine going online to order an identity document, paying by EFT, then popping into the bank at your local mall to collect it?

This is what the Department of Home Affairs hopes will happen if its pilot "e-channel" - launched recently at Standard Bank and First National Bank in downtown Joburg - works.

The department hopes this will resolve the endless queueing outside its 140 offices around the country - and that it will not have to provide more buildings to improve the services provided by its estimated 10 000 employees.

In the 2014/15 period under review, the department printed more than 1.6 million smart cards, which are replacing the green ID books required by South Africans when they turn 16.

This was disclosed in a presentation on an audit of the department to Parliament's home affairs committee.

EFF MP Hlengiwe Hlophe-Maxon was among committee members who expressed concern about whether the department's data would be safe and if it would be possible for bank employees to access an account illegally.

She said sometimes queues in banks were just as lengthy and slow as those at home affairs.

Deputy Home Affairs Minister Fatima Chohan said concerns over security had been dealt in a previous presentation.

But she emphasised that the home affairs employee would use only the bank's space. There would be separate information lines.

"You would see the benefits to us being able to expand our footprint without necessarily having to open offices ourselves," she said.

She said the work itself would be done by home affairs officials, not by banking officials, and would benefit people who did not have the whole day or morning to wait at home affairs offices.

"See the e-channel process as dealing particularly with people who cannot come to our offices. We have to bear in mind the priority that every [South African gets] a smart ID within the next five years."

She said using the banking halls would give the department the opportunity to upgrade and streamline without having to spend too much as would be the case if it had to open new offices.

News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...just-pop-into-bank-for-ID-smart-card-20151013
 
Saw the op, so we would already be two years in if the government actually could do anything right sigh.
 
Thanks LazyLion, some good points buried in the noise.

Creepy title though: Private tech rescues govt service delivery

LazyLion said:
http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142828

Government services such as applying for a smart ID card, registering a company or collecting social security payments are increasingly being made available via the private sector.

The state's extension of service delivery into the private realm comes as it increasingly taps into the technology backbone banks and retailers have put in place; technology it should have also being investing in for years.

Analysts suggest this shift is likely to gain more momentum as it eases the service delivery burden on the state, and gives the private sector a bigger pool of prospective customers.

However, with the crossover between the public and private sector, there are questions as to how secure citizens' information will be, and whether the state will use the relationship as a means of surveillance.
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Emphasis mine. (and my emphasis will be mined)
 
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