PRETORIA, South Africa (UNHCR) - When Omari Shabani became the first person to receive a refugee identity document (ID) in South Africa four years ago, he said he was "overwhelmed" and hoped it would ...

The Department of Home Affairs has announced that it will roll out various IT upgrades to its sytems and the eHomeAffairs ...

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has given more detail on his plans to discontinue the green ID book in South Africa, ...

Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber has warned that the green ID book is the single biggest fraud risk in South Africa.

The end of an era is here as December 2025 will be the final month that SA will print new green ID books for the public.

The newly published research report, ‘Digital Identity - A South African Journey’, commissioned by BankservAfrica and conducted by PwC, maps out the uniquely South African Digital Identity story.

In a groundbreaking achievement for digital trust and identity management, South African-based Impression Signatures has ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response ...