Online Home Affairs application programme launched
South Africans can from today officially apply for ID's and passports at selected bank branches.
President Jacob Zuma launched the eChannel or eHome Affairs program which will see a simplification of the application for these documents.
Zuma said this initiative will make people's lives easier and also shows that as a country we are moving forward.
President Zuma explained that the new system will help with the phasing out of all green ID's within the next 5 years.
This electronic application will allow people to apply and pay on-line, and then go to a bank branch to hand in their photos and scan their fingerprints..
At this stage there are only 12 bank branches - 11 in Gauteng and one in Cape Town - that are running this programme.
At the moment, only people between the ages of 30 and 35 will be able to make use of this program.
Edited by Marius van der Walt