THE Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is experiencing an overwhelming number of uncollected ID nationally, and the City of Ekurhuleni is no exception to this problem.
At the Alberton Home Affairs, there are 1 515 smart card IDs and 563 green ID books still not collected.
The city urges residents to collect their IDs. This, says the city, will enable the residents to register for elections during the voter registration period in January 2019.
The city says uncollected IDs hamper its service delivery programmes as residents, without IDs, cannot register for other important municipal services such as RDP houses. They cannot even collect their title deeds when they are available.
Among the services the residents forgo when they do not have IDs, include the inability to enlist on the city’s indigent database for which they are entitled. Without IDs, residents are not able to access free water and electricity and indigent rebates they are entitled to.
To this end, the city has entered into a partnership with the Department of Home Affairs to fast-track the IDs collection. To help with the collection of the IDs, the city will provide transport to elderly residents and to people with disabilities as well as to military veterans.
Non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations and churches, have also been roped in to assist. The city is also using its community outreach programme, Siyaqhuba, to help with application processing and collection of birth certificates and IDs.
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