Home Affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced that his department is Home Affairs open a new office at Menlyn Park shopping Mall on Monday 6 March 2023. Image: Twitter
Home Affairs extends operating hours due to high demand of IDs
The Department of Home Affairs says there is high demand for Smart ID Cards during school holidays hence the extension of operating hours.
Home Affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced that his department is Home Affairs open a new office at Menlyn Park shopping Mall on Monday 6 March 2023. Image: Twitter
The Department of Home Affairs has extended its operating hours at front offices by two hours.
The operating hours will now be from 08:00 to 17:30 starting on Tuesday, 27 June 2023.
HOME AFFAIRS EXTENDS OPERATING HOURS
The department said the temporary extension is to deal with the high demand for Smart ID Cards and passport services at Home Affairs offices.
The extension applies to the 198 modernised Live Capture offices which can process Smart ID Cards and passports.
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Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said the department usually receives a higher volume of applications during school holidays.
“To meet demand during this period, we have extended operating hours,” he said, emphasising that this is a temporary extension.
OFFICIAL SUSPENDED
An immigration officer who appeared on Moja Love’s drug-busting show ‘Sizokuthola’ for allegedly working with drug dealers has been suspended.
The official who is based in the North West appeared on the TV show in an episode that aired on Sunday, 18 June.
With the help of police officers ‘Sizokuthola’ host, Xolani Khumalo raids businesses and buildings in the country exposing drug dealers.
On Sunday’s episode, the immigration officer was found with screenshots of official Home Affairs documents in her phone and admitted that she is not allowed to have them. When questioned about it, she said she was checking if papers for her husband’s friend were ready.
The woman was also found with multiple IDs, including two belonging to her, two belonging to her daughters, two of her husband, and one belonging to the woman who is currently married to her husband.
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Home Affairs spokesperson Siya Qoza told PowerFM that the woman is currently on suspension and that officials within the department are investigating further to make sure that the woman faces the full might of the law for her wrongdoings.
“There’s an element of a criminal offence because your listeners who would have seen the show would have been aware that she was arrested for possession of drugs,” Qoza told the radio station.
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