Cde Sifiso, where is home affairs coming from if i may ask? What security features are you talking about? Are those features on the ID document or passport document? An ID is a necessity whilst a passport is a luxury!
On 3/31/11, Sifiso Ntanzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Cadres > > The prices are high indeed, but we need to remember where this department > come from. In order to improve the security features on any home affairs > document they had to spend a lot of money and this system is very expensive. > Let us trust and hope that this will go a long way in assisting people to > take care of their documents. Remember the ID's are still issued free of > charge to first time applicants, I'm also sure that during the election time > ID's will be issued free of charge just like in the past. Socialism is the > answer build it now, coz we wouldn't be feeling this prizes. > > I remain > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe we even paying for toilet paper now >> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: sipho shandu <[email protected]> >> Sender: [email protected] >> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:21:48 >> To: <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Emailing: DOJ&CD News & Events 2011 - >> 2011 03 >> 25 Home Affairs hikes prices for....htm >> >> Cdes, I fail to understand this shrewd capitalist approach to getting >> rid of quees at home affairs at the expense of the poor! >> R140 for an identity document?! That to me is marginalisation of the poor. >> Zuma should look into what is going on in that department. I wouldnt >> be suprised if apleni personally pushed for the increase since he was >> the CFO before he was the DG! I dont see Vusi mkhize (DDG: Civic >> Services) pushing for such nonsense. >> My point is that the majority of south africans wont afford to pay >> such high prizes. 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R400 is reasonable in >> > our view," he said. >> > >> > Meanwhile, Apleni said that the department was making progress with its >> > efforts to clean up the National Population Register. >> > >> > The department had identified two significant challenges with regards to >> > the NPR - the duplication of ID numbers and ID numbers that did not have >> > corresponding fingerprints. >> > >> > "After going through our records, the department identified 598 000 >> > instances of duplicate IDs. Amongst these IDs, the department has >> > resolved 412 096 cases for one person with multiple ID numbers and 20 >> > 971 for persons sharing ID numbers." >> > >> > All duplicate numbers have been blocked on the NPR and the department >> > was now busy resolving the 164 933 outstanding cases. >> > >> > In addition, while the department was translating manual fingerprints >> > into the electronic format, 504 250 fingerprints were not converted due >> > to poor quality. >> > >> > "To date we have managed to resolve 127 166 cases and holders of the >> > relevant ID numbers now have their fingerprints on the Home Affairs >> > National Identification System. 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