- Home Affairs offices will be open on Saturdays from 6th April to 25th May, but only from 08:00 to 13:00.
- South Africans can take advantage of these extended operating hours to collect, correct, or apply for an ID.
- The 27th April will be an exception to this and Home Affairs will be closed on this day due to it being Freedom Day.
Starting this Saturday, 6th April, Home Affairs offices will be open from 08:00 to 13:00. This decision has been made to allow South Africans to collect their ID’s ahead of the general elections in May.
Except for Freedom Day on 27th April, Home Affairs offices will be open every Saturday for five hours until 25th May. Not only will South Africans be able to collect their ID, but they can also submit applications for new documents and purchase temporary IDs.
“Offices will also be resolving challenges pertaining to duplicates, amendments, rectifications and dead-alive cases with the required supporting documents,” the Department said in a news release.
Furthermore, mobile offices will also be delivering IDs to those in remote areas who have previously applied for these documents.
Should you need to apply for an ID, passport or any other document issued by Home Affairs, you should make an appointment online using the Branch Appointment Booking System. We’ve used it on multiple occasions and it makes visit Home Affairs far less headache-inducing. You can find the Branch Appointment Booking System here.
“We invite people who have applied for their IDs, particularly young people who are first-time applicants, to come to our offices to collect their documents. This initiative gives people more options to collect their enabling documents,” said Deputy Minister, Mr Njabulo Nzuza. “We encourage clients who have applied for identification documents and have received their SMS notifications, to seize this opportunity by visiting their Home Affairs office to collect these critical documents.”
In order to vote on 29th May you will need to produce an ID or a temporary ID. As such, these additional operating hours from Home Affairs are something you may want to take advantage of if you don’t have those documents.
As many as 27 million South Africans are registered to vote in the 2024 General Elections, the most since the dawn of democracy.
