NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 86
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 9 October 2009
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 17 OF 2009
Ms N D Ntwanambi (ANC-WC) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
Whether her department interviews persons for late registration of birth;
if not, what processes are in place to verify applications for late
registration of birth; if so, per province, (a) how many (i) persons are on
the waiting list for such interviews, (ii) interviews are conducted on
average per day and (iii) persons are employed to do such interviews and
(b) what is the longest that a person has waited for such an interview?
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REPLY
Yes, the Department of Home Affairs interviews persons for late
registration of birth.
(a)(i) 112467 applicants are waiting for interviews as at 31 October
2009
|Province |Total number of applications on hand |
| |in Provinces as on 31 October 2009 |
|Gauteng |8757 |
|Eastern Cape |30496 |
|KZN |34037 |
|Limpopo |8187 |
|Free State |4504 |
|Northern Cape |2367 |
|Mpumalanga |16612 |
|Western Cape |4332 |
|North West |3175 |
|TOTAL |112467 |
(a)(ii) On average, ten (10) applicants are interviewed per day per
screening committee.
Please note, the following challenges regarding late registration of
birth:
⢠Applicants and informants not attending interviews.
⢠Screening committeesâ capacity (Home Affairs challenge).
⢠Non-compliance of applicants.
⢠Delays in providing feedback on fingerprint results (Home Affairs
challenge).
The following interventions are currently under consideration (or have
been implemented):
⢠To interview applicants when the application is initially lodged.
⢠To appoint additional screening committees to increase capacity to
speed up the adjudication process.
⢠To appoint persons of good standing in the community to assist
with the interview process.
⢠Deployment of additional teams to high volume offices to assist
with the interviewing, and adjudication process.
⢠Online verification implemented to verify informants, whose
fingerprints are, already, captured on the Automated Fingerprint
Identification System (AFIS), and thus, eliminating the need to
search for informantsâ fingerprints, manually.
(a)(iii) Five (5) officials per Screening Committee in each Province.
(b) Six (6) months.