Articles about smart ID

Standard Bank offers smart ID services at more branches

Smart ID application and renewal services are now available at more Standard Bank branches across Gauteng.

SA woman's 'non-existent' fingerprints captured

Fingerprint scanning technology reveals a Cape Flats woman's fingerprints for the first time.

Home affairs to upgrade systems

During the systems upgrade, citizens will not be able to make smart ID and passport applications.

Smart ID online applications still not live

Government said online smart ID applications would start in May; however, two months later, citizens are still waiting.

Apply for smart ID online

A new system will allow citizens to apply for a smart ID card online before going into the bank to verify who they are.

Boost for home affairs modernisation plan

Home affairs will spend almost R1?billion on a transversal IT management programme over the next three years.

Home affairs shouldn't bother

If modernisation doesn't take the pain out of dealing with officialdom, then why did home affairs spend all that money?

Home affairs targets 3m smart IDs this year

The transition from ID books to smart IDs will take place over six years, says the department.

Mass smart ID card rollout begins

First-time applicants and senior citizens are first in line, as home affairs looks to meet its target of 100?000 smart IDs by March.

DHA targets 100 000 smart IDs by March

Home affairs has added 25 offices to speed up the rollout of smart ID cards, says minister Naledi Pandor.

Smart ID fee waived for pensioners

Home Affairs minister Naledi Pandor says pensioners will receive their first smart ID cards free of charge.

IDs get smart

The national rollout of ID cards has begun