{"id":710604,"date":"2023-08-11T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=710604"},"modified":"2023-08-11T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:23:59","slug":"boost-for-smart-ids-and-passports-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/710604\/boost-for-smart-ids-and-passports-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost for Smart IDs and passports in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Home Affairs is continuing to open selected offices on Saturdays to increase access to services, mainly for clients who are unable to visit their offices on weekdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extended service is applicable to certain offices. This Saturday, 12 August 2023, the following offices will be open from 08h00 to 13h00:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The new Home Affairs Menlyn (Menlyn Park Shopping Centre, Pretoria, Gauteng);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mmabatho Office (Motswedi House, Dr James Moroka Dr, Montshiwa Unit 2, North West)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mankwe Office (3, Mogwase Complex, Station Road, Mogwase, North West).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Continued boost<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department said that it will continue to keep select offices open and will communicate when other offices will be operating on various Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe encourage clients to take advantage of the extended hours on Saturdays to collect documents they have applied for,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department has recently launched several initiatives that make applying for and collecting smart ID cards and passports easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi recently approved a temporary extension of operating hours at from offices by two hours from 08h00 to 17h30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extension applies to nearly 200 modernised Live Capture offices that process smart ID cards and passports and started on 27 July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe department usually receives a higher volume of applications during school holidays. To meet the demand during this period, we have extended operating hours,\u201d Motsoaledi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the department said that it is interested in expanding its services to more bank branches across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 27 bank branches where South African-born citizens can renew their passports or smart IDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot programme will be in effect until September 2023, despite being initially scheduled to end in July 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A breakdown of which banks provide smart ID and passport services is below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Standard Bank&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>FNB&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nedbank&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Absa&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Discovery Bank&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Investec&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-businesstech wp-block-embed-businesstech\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RMnSZiQYsL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/685073\/all-the-bank-branches-where-you-can-get-your-smart-id-and-passport\/\">All the bank branches where you can get your Smart ID and passport<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;All the bank branches where you can get your Smart ID and passport&#8221; &#8212; BusinessTech\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/685073\/all-the-bank-branches-where-you-can-get-your-smart-id-and-passport\/embed\/#?secret=YB0ZrY3qRx#?secret=RMnSZiQYsL\" data-secret=\"RMnSZiQYsL\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/693863\/fnb-looking-to-expand-smart-id-and-passport-branches-in-south-africa\/\">FNB looking to expand Smart ID and passport branches in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select Home Affairs offices will be open this Saturday to assist South Africans that struggle to make it to a branch during the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":678393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-710604","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\/710604","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=710604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710606,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710604\/revisions\/710606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}