Minister of Public
Service and Administration, Minister Lindiwe Sisulu together with the Minister
of Home Affairs, Minister Naledi Pandor briefed the media on Thursday regarding
the permanent resident’s backlog project.
The project was
introduced in September 2013 and according to Minister Sisulu the project has
been a success.
Sisulu said the
temporary residents area has stabilised after clearing of 46 000 applications
backlogged in 2012 and currently there are 54 641 approved but not yet
dispatched residents permits and these are the permits that need to be
dispatched soon.
Meanwhile the
Department of Home Affairs has adjudicated 10 756 applications out of
23 945 that were a backlog in September.
The Department of
Home Affairs has also established a permanent resident’s project to ensure that
all applications which are over eight months are adjudicated within 12
weeks.
Additional human
resources have been put into the project to clear the backlog by December
2013.
Minister of Home
Affairs Naledi Pandor said there has also been a lot of fraud within the
department, whereby certain individuals were arrested selling permits.
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