Residents urged to collect IDs from local home affairs

2018-11-17 -

The City of Ekurhuleni is assisting with transport for the elderly. More than 1 500 identity documents, both smart IDs and green barcoded IDs, are to be collected from the Department of Home Affairs in Kempton Park. The Department of Home Affairs is currently experiencing an overwhelming number of uncollected IDs nationally, and the City of Ekurhuleni is no exception. According to recent figures released by home affairs in Ekurhuleni, there are 19 150 smart IDs and 1 528 green barcoded IDs left uncollected at different offices. The City of Ekurhuleni has entered into a partnership with the Department of Home Affairs to fast-track ID collections

The City is providing transport to elderly residents, people with a disability and military veterans. Non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations and churches have also been roped in to assist. The City has also used its popular community outreach programme, Siyaqhuba, to advocate for application and collection of birth certificates and IDs. Of the 1 572 at Kempton home affairs, 1 419 are smart IDs and 153 green barcoded IDs.