Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba today handed over 177 Identity Documents to the victims of the fire in Kya Sands, Randburg.
Hundreds
of people were left homeless after a blaze ripped through 1 200 shacks
about two weeks ago.
Minister
Gigaba said the process for the asylum seekers affected to receive their papers
will take longer.
Gigaba
added that the process is that we have to check at the entire system to
establish where they had applied and their conditions of their applications
before we can reissue their permits.
Meanwhile
Minister Gigaba said the department waived all fees when the over 2 000
people affected by the blaze applied for their identity documents.
Minister
Gigaba said the issuing of an id normally takes about two weeks but because of
the urgency of the matter the process had to fast-tracked.
He
added that the department’s priority was to those who had lost their documents
because we did not want it to impact on school and work situation.
“However
those who have applied for the first time will be subjected to the same process
as everyone else” Gigaba added.
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