The department of Home Affairs in Upington says of the 3256 uncollected Smart Card IDs that were in their possession, they are now left with 3 110. Patrick Dawids, manager of the department of Home Affairs in the ZF Mgcawu district says, between Wednesday and Friday last week they received an additional 306 IDs and 452 were collected since the extension operating hours of Saturday, 11 November 2023. He says the Home Affairs operating hours were extended to give residents who have not yet collected their smart card IDs the opportunity to collect in preparation of the upcoming voter registration weekend. He further said the Department is not satisfied with the collection so far because the public didn’t make use of this opportunity to collect their ID’s, but the Department still has hope that they will come in numbers this coming weekend to collect the ID’s. Mr. Patrick Davids says the way forward is to send the list of unclaimed IDs to councillors and hope they will encourage the public to collect their smart ID’s.

Journalist: Asathaba Grootboom
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