Home Affairs Deputy Minister Fatima today Monday, 16 January 2012 concluded her visits to the Belgravia and Ned Dorman High Schools in Cape Town’s Athlone area during which she impressed upon learners the importance of applying for identity documents (IDs).
Deputy Minister Chohan’s engagement with learners comes within the context of popularising the National Population Registration Campaign (NPR), through which the Department of Home Affairs is committed to ensuring each newborn baby in South Africa is issued with a birth certificate and each 16 year old is issued with an ID.
In this regard, Deputy Minister Chohan stressed to learners the importance of having an ID which is required to access social services in South Africa but most importantly, required when grade 12s begin their final examinations. Indeed, an ID is a passport to a better life.
To further assist learners, the department’s mobile offices and officials were deployed to the respective schools to assist with ID applications.
In addition, and as part of a community outreach programme, mobile offices will be stationed at the Vangate Shopping Mall on Sunday, 28 January 2012 to assist learners with ID applications as well as other members of the community with other services rendered by the Department of Home Affairs.
Manusha Pillai
Cell: 082 389 3587
