A BEAMING Muzikayise Nkwanyana of Macekane Reserve arrived at the Zululand Observer office in Empangeni this week, happily brandishing two ID documents.
The reason for his excitement was that after two long years of a struggle to have the wrong date of birth on his old ID document corrected, he finally received the new, correct one.
Nkwanyana sought the Zululand Observer’s intervention to have the matter resolved.
The ZO contacted Empangeni Home Affairs and spoke to the Office Manager, Vusi Mjadu, about Nkwanyana’s difficulties.
The retired former policeman was concerned that the incorrect birth date will impact negatively with his insurance policies and other life savings.
He was also worried, like many elderly people who lose out when applying for their old age pensions, that he will not be able to apply when ‘the golden time arrives’, telling the ZO he had one more year to go.
Expressing his gratitude to the newspaper, Nkwanyana said without the help he received his ID would probably not have been fixed.
‘It had taken me two years of fighting with Home Affairs about this matter, to no avail.
‘Today I’m happy to say I feel like any other South African, now that my book of life depicts how old I really am,’ Nkwanyana said.
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