In 2020, the department will add China, India and Nigeria to its e-visas pilot, which is being tested in Kenya.

The IT agency admits challenges resulting in it failing to fix IT systems for government departments amid calls for it to be closed down.

Several government department Web sites on the gov.za domain remained offline for most of last night and into this morning, one year after a similar incident occurred.

The WhoYou app uses mobile biometric tech and algorithms to verify a person’s identity against the South African National Population Register.

The ministry pins its hopes on an automated biometric identification system, as it looks to fight identity theft and ID duplication.

The home affairs portfolio committee turns to social media to strengthen its oversight work.

The Department of Home Affairs is mum on when its official Web site will be back online, as downtime period reaches two weeks.

The Department of Home Affairs announces a brief time-out of its online applications tool, noting the service will be back up on Monday.

Only three days left to comment on the DHA's White Paper, which seeks to make the department fully digitised.

The department issues a draft white paper outlining its modernisation roadmap and calls for comment by 18 February.

The city calls on residents to collect their identity documents, as over 19 000 microchip-embedded cards gather dust at its home affairs office.

President Cyril Ramaphosa promises implementation of an electronic visa system, as the country looks to tourism for economic growth opportunities.