The Department of Home Affairs confirmed that its systems are offline.
In a statement, the nationwide problem, it says, is caused by a cable breakage which connects to the State Information Technology Agency (SITA).
‘’A team of Home
Affairs and SITA technicians is working tirelessly to ensure that the cable
breakage is resolved. This cable break means that most Home Affairs services
are not available.’’
Home Affairs says their
services are currently limited to passport collections; and handwritten death
certificates will be issued for burial purposes, with computerised certificates
to be issued when the system is back online.
‘’We are waiting for
SITA to give us information on the estimated time of restoration of the system.’’
‘’We apologise for the
inconvenience caused by this unfortunate network failure,’’ it added.
PICTURE: Department of Home Affairs
Done by: Mitchum George
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