Schreiber: Outdated Home Affairs systems pose threat to national security

Speaking to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, Schreiber warned that outdated, paper-based systems leave the department vulnerable to fraud, corruption, and identity theft. 

He told MPs that the 95 Libyans who received military training after a dodgy visa process points to a "systemic crisis that threatens the national security”.

Investigations revealed that their visas were handwritten. 

They have since been deported. 

"The common denominator that you will see across all of these presentations is that Home Affairs systems are vulnerable to fraud, corruption and discretion because they are outdated, paper-based, manual and therefore open to subversion,” said Schreiber. 

“How can South Africa regard ourselves as a serious nation when we still allow entrances into our country based on handwritten documents that frankly even a child can forge?

"If we allow things to continue as they are, Home Affairs will simply remain the department of firefighters. We will appear before the Parliament over and over again for the next five years to account for how we are putting our fires.” 

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