{"id":324111,"date":"2019-06-19T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=324111"},"modified":"2019-06-19T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:24:24","slug":"6-things-you-can-expect-from-south-africas-updated-identity-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/324111\/6-things-you-can-expect-from-south-africas-updated-identity-system\/","title":{"rendered":"6 things you can expect from South Africa&#8217;s updated identity system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government is currently working on an updated national identification system with the ultimate goal of building a \u2018future-fit&#8217; Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an ID4Africa <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/speeches\/address-south-africa%E2%80%99s-minister-international-relations-and-cooperation-dr-naledi-pandor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference<\/a> <\/strong>on Tuesday (18 June), International Relations and Cooperation minister Naledi Pandor said that the system will provide a single source of information about all clients, using both biographic and biometric technologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new national identity system South Africa seeks to build will serve as a master source for civics and immigration management,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The modernisation of South Africa\u2019s Home Affairs, when fully and successfully implemented, will re-engineer and automate most of the key processes of the department and yield a significantly enhanced national identification system, and a credible national population register.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key elements of the system include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Records of persons throughout their lifespan;<\/li>\n<li>Birth, marriage and death records of residents (citizens, permanent residents, asylum seekers and refugees);<\/li>\n<li>All persons entering the country will have their biometrics captured during the visa application process or at the point of entry;<\/li>\n<li>Processing and storing of asylum seekers and refugees\u2019 applications;<\/li>\n<li>Records of visitors who enter and leave the country;<\/li>\n<li>Records of illegal persons in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pandor also promised that the new system will be more customer-centric and will be a secure environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, the ultimate goal is to utilize technology in bringing government services closer to the people, where they live,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/323283\/these-30-jobs-could-get-you-a-visa-for-the-uk-new-zealand-and-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">These 30 jobs could get you a visa for the UK, New Zealand and Australia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is currently working on an updated national identification system with the ultimate goal of building a \u2018future-fit&#8217; Home Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":94011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-324111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324111","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=324111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324201,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324111\/revisions\/324201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}