House Chair, the ANC has noted the effort being made to modernise the Department of Home Affairs.
In line with Outcome 1, which relates to secure South African citizenship and identity and Outcome 2, which relates to a secure and responsive immigration system, the department seeks to run an integrated and digitised national identity system that is secure and contains biometric details of every person recorded on the system. Over and above this, it ensures that refugees and asylum seekers are managed and documented efficiently and that movement of persons in and out of the country is regulated according to a risk-based approach.
The ANC therefore supports this initiative and believes that the modernisation of the Department of Home Affairs will bring efficiency, integration and a responsive system with much reduced fraudulent activities. I thank you.