Home Affairs: 'check your ID'
15 July 2005
The Department of Home Affairs is pleased with the progress of the Lokisa Ditokomane (Check Your Documents) campaign, launched in April this year.
The campaign - which runs until 31 August - encourages South Africans with errors on their identity, or any other home affairs documents, to come forward and have them corrected, free of charge.
Some people have had difficulties accessing social grants and other government services due to mistakes on their documents.
Spokesperson Nkosana Sibuyi said the errors included "incorrect names and surnames; wrong pictures; duplications; some people declared dead while they are still alive, misspelled names; incorrect birth dates and wrong gender.
In the first three months of the campaign, the department has processed and dealt with a total of 37 533 applications, including:
- 10 314 misspelled names;
- 23 404 incorrect dates of birth;
- 2 261 incorrect gender;
- 749
duplicate ID numbers;
- 389 incorrect death declarations; and
- 416 incorrect photographs in documents.
"We would like to take this opportunity to warn members of the public with criminal intentions that Home Affairs have adopted zero tolerance on corruption", Sibuyi added. "They will be caught and be sent to the relevant authorities."
SouthAfrica.info reporter
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