Restoring South Africa is going to be a hard task – ask anyone who's been to Home Affairs

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OPINION: Restoring South Africa is going to be a hard task – ask anyone who's been to Home Affairs | brucebusiness

The votes are cast and are being counted. Meanwhile, South Africa is in a mess.Home affairs is a great example of just how bad things have become.

Lots of small towns – and an alarming number of cities – are failing. Most provinces are floundering. National government has barely held it together as a lack of growth has exacerbated the crises which afflict ordinary South Africans on a daily basis. So, it’s at times of excitement, great joy and deep loss that Home Affairs is the place where the state requires you to comply with its bureaucratic demand on you, and for which you pay a not-inconsiderable amount of money.

 

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brucebusiness Two days to get a temporary ID in order to vote. My fingerprints was not on their system. My concern is that I had my Drivers Licence, Passport AND my original Birth Certificate but they did not want to see it at all. Took all my prints again and sent it to Pretoria. So who am I?

brucebusiness That department and many others need a total overhaul of systems and processes. They need us as a nation to dig deep to empower them with skill and new blood for today's solutions. They must be positioned to respond to today's ecommerce

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