The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) introduced the Branch Appointment Booking System (BABS) for South Africans seeking Smart ID cards and passports to book dates for submitting their biometrics data.

The BABS system offers quick and easy appointment scheduling. To book ... department into a digital-first organisation by 2029. This plan focuses on reducing in-person visits and bringing Home ...

South Africans still relying on the green ID booklet can avoid long queues at Home Affairs offices by using the department’s ...

Citizens can either book an appointment to collect their ID, by using the online Branch Appointment Booking System, or they can go to Home Affairs without making a booking. The department ...

The Department of Home Affairs has announced that it will be ... ID books before visiting offices by utilising the Branch Appointment Booking System (BABS), accessible on the DHA Website ...

The Home Affairs Department is urging all South Africans who are still in possession of a green ID book to get a smart ID card as soon as possible. After over a decade since introducing the smart ...

Ahead of the voter registration weekend on 18-19 November, the department of home affairs announced that it would open ... The department also announced that clients could now use the branch ...

The Department of Home Affairs wants to phase out green barcoded ID books in South Africa to limit widespread ID fraud and identity theft. It warned South Africans who still use green ID books and ...

However, before the Minister of Home Affairs can declare the old identity book invalid, the department must ensure that a critical mass of people have adopted the smart ID card — hence its ...

JOHANNESBURG - The Home Affairs Department is urging green identity document (ID) bookholders to switch to smart IDs to avoid falling victim to identity theft. This is part of the department's ...

The Director-General of Home Affairs says that his department will soon begin cancelling ... South Africa’s green ID book is the most faked identity document in the entire African continent ...