The Deputy Home Affairs Minister, Fatima Chohan will tomorrow, Friday, 7 December 2012, deliver identity documents (IDs) house-to- house in the Knysna Local Municipality as part of the Department’ s drive to popularize the National Population Registration (NPR) campaign.
The NPR campaign is aimed at securing the country’s population register for the country.
The Deputy Minister Chohan will also interact with the residents of Khayalethu and surrounding areas in Knysna at the Khayalethu Hall where she will, amongst other things, encourage mothers to register their babies within 30 days of birth. This is part of the national effort to ensure that birth is the only entry point to the country’s national population register.
With one entry point into the population register, at birth, the Department can ultimately eradicate late birth registrations as well as succeed in its quest to eliminate fraud and corruption related to the production of identity documents, including identity theft.
A secure, credible and accurate National Population Register will assist the government in order to plan adequately to fulfill its social contract with the citizenry of the country as well as safeguard all those within its borders.
The Department is also striving towards a situation where all those who turn 16 years of age can be timeously issued with identity documents.
Residents of the Knysna Local Municipality are urged to bring along supporting documentation, such as marriage certificates, clinic cards and birth certificates, in order to access the Home Affairs services which will be provided at the Khayalethu Hall tomorrow.
Media are invited as follows:
Date: Friday 7 December 2010
Venue: Khayalethu Hall, Knysna
Time: 09h00
RSVP: Zandile Ratshitanga
