{"id":146521,"date":"2016-12-08T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T08:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=146521"},"modified":"2016-12-08T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:27:29","slug":"home-affairs-capture-system-failure-means-your-holiday-could-be-put-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/146521\/home-affairs-capture-system-failure-means-your-holiday-could-be-put-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Affairs capture system failure means your holiday could be put on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Home Affairs has published an official <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dha.gov.za\/index.php\/statements-speeches\/906-media-statement-on-the-unavailability-of-the-live-capture-system\" target=\"_blank\">apology<\/a><\/strong> due to the failure of its Live Capture System.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Home Affairs wishes to announce that the Live Capture System at\u00a0our offices is unavailable due to technical challenges&#8221;,\u00a0the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Services that are affected include\u00a0Smart ID Card and Passport applications as well as collections. Birth, Marriages and Death services are not affected.<\/p>\n<p>The department confirmed that the matter was being attended to but could not confirm as to when the systems will be back online.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/146035\/no-salary-increase-for-public-officials-in-2017-says-zuma\/\" target=\"_blank\">No salary increase for public officials in 2017, says Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Home Affairs &#8220;technical glitch&#8221; means you can&#8217;t apply or collect your new ID or passport for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":85688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-146521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146531,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146521\/revisions\/146531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}