1 February
2013
The Department of Home
Affairs will from 4 March stop issuing abridged birth certificates and
will only issue unabridged birth certificates to parents of new-born
babies.
Briefing the media in Pretoria on Thursday,
31 January 2013, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said the unabridged
birth certificates will be issued on the spot and at no cost and will
contain the details of both parents.
The current
abridged birth certificate suffers from the following failures:
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It is easy to reproduce illegally.
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It contains only the name and ID number of the newborn baby and the
mother.
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It resulted in the creation of additional paper records when we seek
to move towards a paperless department.
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It takes 6-8 weeks to produce.
The
department is able to issue unabridged certificates as a result of the
current IT modernisation project that is aimed at enhancing service
delivery.
Read more: Minister
Naledi Pandor: Media briefing on issuing of unabridged birth
certificates
