Home Affairs offices open on Saturdays

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will open its offices for five hours (08:00 to 13:00) on Saturdays, from April 6 to May 25, excluding the April 27 public holiday.

Their offices will be open for ID collections, facilitating new applications and issuing temporary identity certificates.

The offices will also resolve challenges of duplicates, amendments, rectifications and dead-alive cases with the required supporting documents.

The mobile offices will return to deliver the IDs in the remote areas from which they took applications. Local offices, working with stakeholders that include councillors, will communicate the dates, times and venues of those visits.

The mobile offices will also support the identified local offices.

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In addition, clients can book appointments to collect their smart ID cards and green barcoded ID books before visiting the offices through the branch appointment booking system (BABS) available on the DHA website, www.dha.gov.za, through this link: BABS.

Alternatively, clients can visit the offices without a booking.

“We invite people who applied for their IDs, particularly young people who are first-time applicants, to come to our offices to collect their documents.

“This initiative gives people more options to collect their enabling documents,” said the DHA’s deputy minister, Njabulo Nzuza.

The department encourages clients who applied for identification documents and have received their SMS notifications to seize this opportunity by visiting their Home Affairs office to collect these critical documents.

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