The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is currently experiencing an overwhelming number of uncollected IDs nationally and the City of Ekurhuleni is no exception.
According to recent figures released by the DHA, there are approximately 19 150 smart IDs and 1 528 green bar-coded IDs that have not been collected.
The city urges residents to collect their IDs so that they can register to vote during the voter registration period in January 2019.
Furthermore, uncollected IDs hamper the city’s service delivery programmes because residents cannot register for other municipal programmes, such as RDP housing and cannot collect their title deeds when they are available for collection.
Among the services that residents forgo due to lack of IDs are enlisting on the city’s indigent database for which they are entitled to free water, free electricity and indigent rebates to assessment rates.
To this end, the city has entered into a partnership with the DHA to fast-track the collection of IDs.
The city is providing transport to senior citizens, people living with disabilities 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 the application and collection of birth certificates and IDs.
Also read: Incorrect information on the My Ekurhuleni App causes backlogs
Below is the number of uncollected IDs per local Home Affairs office:
• Brakpan – Smart ID (2 715) Green bar-coded ID (55)
• Benoni – Smart ID (1 294) Green bar-coded ID (40)
• Alberton – Smart ID (1 515) Green bar-coded ID (563)
• Boksburg – Smart ID (2 507) Green bar-coded ID (59)
• Kempton Park – Smart ID (1 419) Green bar-coded ID (153)
• Nigel – Smart ID (1 086) Green bar-coded ID (61)
• Germiston – Smart ID (2 607) Green bar-coded ID (295)
• Springs – Smart ID (1 467) Green bar-coded ID (68)
• Edenvale – Smart ID (4 540) Green bar-coded ID (234)
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