NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 788
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 26 April 2013
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 13 of 2013
Mrs H Lamoela (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
(1) How many fingerprints are currently on the Home Affairs National
Identification System (Hanis) database;
(2) (a) how many fingerprints have been lost off the database, (b) when
were they lost and (c) what process is being followed by her
Department to recover them?
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REPLY:
1) There are approximately 39 million sets of fingerprints on the
Hanis database.
(2)(a) to (c) According to the Department of Home Affairsâ records, no
fingerprints have been lost off the database. All fingerprints
scanned and digitised into the Hanis database are still on the
database.