{"id":309424,"date":"2019-04-05T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=309424"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:47:57","slug":"home-affairs-warns-of-election-robbers-targeting-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/309424\/home-affairs-warns-of-election-robbers-targeting-south-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Affairs warns of &#8216;election robbers&#8217; targeting South Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Home Affairs has warned of \u2018election robbers\u2019 who are targeting members of the public ahead of the 2019 national elections.<\/p>\n<p>The department said that the scammers pretend to be Home Affairs officials so they can gain access to homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are in possession of letterheads purportedly from the Department of Home Affairs and claim the purpose of their visit is to confirm the validity of IDs for the elections,&#8221; said acting Home Affairs director-general Thulani Mavuso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They then rob the unsuspecting members of the public of their valuables. There is no initiative of this nature from Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t come to your homes to validate your IDs, you come to us, as citizens, for IDs and other services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mavuso cautioned members of the South African public to be extra vigilant in the run-up to the national elections on 8 May.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/306974\/da-given-permission-to-seal-ballot-boxes-in-may-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DA given permission to seal ballot boxes in May elections<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Home Affairs has warned of \u2018election robbers\u2019 who are targeting members of the public ahead of the 2019 national elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-309424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309424","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=309424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309428,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309424\/revisions\/309428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}