YOUR ID MAY BE BLOCKED BY HOME AFFAIRS
If Your ID is cancelled by Home Affairs and think this is a mistake you have to send inquiry to the following email: Sylvia.Phasha@dha.gov.za and explain why the ID should be unblocked.
Due to corruption Home Affairs Minister has decided to start blocking ID that are duplicate and stolen by illegal foreigners and other criminals. ID will be cancelled if there is link of fraud on the ID. Through a publication in the government gazette, the Department has called upon persons who are currently in possession of a blocked ID to provide written reasons and representations within 30 days for why their ID should not be cancelled. The submissions must be sent to Sylvia.Phasha@dha.gov.za. The Department will also undertake a sustained social media advertising campaign to provide the public with an opportunity to make representations.
Through this move, Home Affairs aims to both resolve the decades-old issue of wrongfully blocked IDs while reducing the number of fraudulent documents in circulation. Some of the IDs were originally blocked as far back as 2005 for a range of reasons, including because the biometric system flagged the documents as duplicates, held by illegal immigrants, or because the ID holder had passed away. By providing the public with the opportunity to make representations, the Department intends to end the inconvenience caused by the block to holders of legitimate IDs, while cancelling IDs held by unauthorised persons.
The gazetting of this measure is also in furtherance of compliance with a court order handed down earlier this year, which required the Department to undertake a fair administrative process to differentiate between IDs that have been wrongfully blocked, and IDs that represent genuine security threats.