10 May 2013
Minister of Home Affairs Naledi Pandor
presented the Home Affairs budget vote in Parliament on Thursday.
Pandor said one the department’s challenges
since 2009 has been trying to eliminate duplicate ID’s.
The Minister added that the department has
taken a hard stance against corruption.
Pandor said that 9 officials were arrested
on suspicion of corruption.
“We support all efforts directed at
eradicating corruption” the Minister added.
Minister Pandor also said some of the
department’s priorities is to register all births within 30 days, enhance
security by creating relaiable National Population Register and supporting
national security together with the security cluster.
Minister Pandor spoke about some of the
other projects, including developing a South African citizenship database and a
secure identity for the people.
“I believe we will have succeeded in this when
we have birth registration is the only point of entry to our national
population register” Pandor reiterated.
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