VANDERBIJLPARK. – Hordes of people looking for new Identity Documents (ID’s), Birth Certificates and other important documents found themselves faced with locked gates when they made their way to Home Affairs Department offices in Vanderbijlpark yesterday and today, 6 and 7 May.
Those who found the padlock at the gates of the offices had travelled, some by public transport, from as far as of Mullerstuin and Nancescol plots in Vanderbijlpark. It is said that the staff at Home Affairs had been advised not to turn up for work if they had not been issued with Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), face masks, gloves etc. A notice which read that the office will close until further notice was only placed at the gate of Home Affairs on 7 May.
“The government has issued all its departments with PPE. What is happening here is unfair as some of us do not have transport money to come here again,” said a distraught member of the public.
At the time of going to print Sedibeng Ster could not reach the department for comment about the closure of the office.
