No time for your affairs
The Tongaat branch of the Department of Home Affairs is apparently refusing to comply with a national directive that offices across the country would extend opening hours to meet the high level of demand.
The Tongaat branch of the Department of Home Affairs is apparently refusing to comply with a national directive that offices across the country would extend opening hours to meet the high level of demand.
The department said people who had applied for smart ID cards more than two weeks ago should visit the branch at which they had applied for the documents to be collected and could do so until 7pm daily.
An irate local, Thivashini Govender, told the Courier that she arrived around 5pm last Tuesday to find the entrance closed and guards washing a car.
She says she was told that they would not be open for the extended operating hours.
Tongaat Home Affairs branch manager, Derrick Naidoo declined to comment and referred the Courier to the director of Home Affairs, Tersia Smith. No reply had been received at the time of going to print.
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