Residents urged to use weekend opening of home affairs offices to collect IDs
Residents of Ekurhuleni who have not collected their IDs are urged to visit the two home affairs branches to collect the IDs on December. 8
THE Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is currently experiencing an overwhelming number of uncollected IDs nationally and the City of Ekurhuleni is no exception. There are altogether over 20 000 IDs that have been left uncollected at home affairs offices in Ekurhuleni.
Home affairs officials in Boksburg and Germiston have responded to a call to assist residents to conveniently collect their IDs by making an internal arrangement among themselves to open the offices on December 8 from 8am to 2pm.
Furthermore, uncollected IDs hamper the City service delivery programmes because residents cannot register for other municipal programmes, such as RDP housing and cannot collect their title deeds when they are available for collection. Among the services that the residents forgo due to lack of IDs are enlisting on the City’s indigent database for which they are entitled to free water, free electricity and indigent rebates to assessment rates.
Residents of Ekurhuleni who have not collected their IDs are urged to visit the two home affairs branches to collect the IDs on December. 8
The City is providing transport to elderly residents, people living with disability, learners and military veterans.
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