The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is currently experiencing an overwhelming number of uncollected IDs nationally and Ekurhuleni is no exception.<\/p>\n
There are altogether over 20 000 IDs that have been left uncollected at Home Affairs offices in Ekurhuleni.<\/p>
Home Affairs officials in Germiston and Boksburg have responded to a call to assist residents to conveniently collect their IDs by making an internal arrangement among themselves to open the offices on Saturday, December 8 from 8am to 2pm.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, uncollected IDs hamper the metro\u2019s service delivery programmes because residents cannot register for other municipal programmes, such as RDP housing and cannot collect their title deeds when they are available for collection.<\/p>
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