New opening and closing times for the department of Home Affairs

Mbasa Gqokoma
04 March 2015

The Department of Home Affairs has announced new opening and closing times for offices across the country.

Home Affairs Director General Mkuseli Apleni said the new opening and closing hours will undoubtedly be of benefit to clients staff.

These will include having more staff available on any particular shift to address service delivery demands in the front office.

The new hours will come into effect from Monday next week.

Apleni says office hours for DHA will be from 07:30 to 16:30 including a thirty minutes lunch break.

Opening and closing hours for serving clients will be from 08:00 to 16:00.

Apleni added that it was decided the two shifts would be required to ensure successful implementation.

The first shift will commence at 07:30 and end at 16:00, then for the public working eight hours.

The second shift will commence at 09:00 and end at 17:30 seven hours, both shifts will include thirty minutes lunch break Apleni added.