DHA says it will work with Soil of Africa to unblock IDs wrongfully suspected of fraud

The home affairs department in Tshwane said that it would collaborate with civic movement Soil of Africa to unblock IDs wrongfully suspected of fraud.

Scores of members from the movement and affected individuals marched to the department’s head office in the metro on Monday.

They claim thousands of IDs were wrongfully blocked and say the department is not moving fast enough to resolve the issue as required by an order by the Pretoria High Court last year.

The blocked ID crisis dates back to 2005.

The Home Affairs department claims that it has already unblocked 2.1 million IDs to date.

Deputy Director-General Thomas Sigama said: "We will continue to work with Soil of Africa, as I've indicated that they had a meeting with one of our officials and we made sure that we then take the documentation that they had, we evaluated them, and feedback will be provided continuously."