Unless I don't understand, hon member, maybe it is a specific case. You will have to hand it over to me. There are 412 Home Affairs offices in the country. All of them can issue a birth certificate on the spot. What all of them cannot do is to issue a
passport or a smart card ID. This can be done only by 193 offices which have been equipped with what we call live- capture.
If you want a birth certificate, you can to all the 412 offices or to the 391 hospitals you will then get a birth certificate on the spot because it is an easy document to issue. If a child is being sent from Eastern Cape to Durban to apply for a birth certificate, that is news to me and it is something that I do not understand. Let me get the facts and will follow it up.