Consular, Topnews
29. November 2016
The Minister of Home Affairs together with the Statistician-General of South Africa has launched a project on the digitisation of Home Affairs civil records on 23 November 2016. The digitisation project follows a close collaboration between the Department of Home Affairs and Statistics South Africa and signifies a transition from the old systems of record keeping to a modern, efficient and secure storage method that will ensure speedy retrieval of records for processing applications such as birth certificates, irrespective of location in the country