Department of Home Affairs back online

MBOMBELA – After being offline since last Thursday, the Department of Home Affairs’ connection was restored on Wednesday.

When Lowvelder visited their offices on Thursday, there was no longer a queue outside. Instead, officials were seen at their posts, helping the customers.

Lowvelder previously reported that hundreds of people, travelling from all over the Lowveld, were`negatively affected by the fact the office was not able to operate efficiently.

Queues of more than a hundred people at a time were seen outside the department’s building on Monday, and by Tuesday there was still no clear indication of when they would be online again.

READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE: Department of Home Affairs is still offline

The department’s acting provincial manager, Dorris Chiloane, told the newspaper on Thursday that a number of home affairs offices across the province were offline.

Locals were also recently met with closed doors at the Department of Labour as well as the local SARS office.

Both of these, however, were open last Monday morning.

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