. To ensure that the registration at births is the only entry point for South Africans to the NPR. The DHA planned to ensure that 642 000 births were registered within 30 days; 40 additional health facilities were operational for online birth registration and eight additional stakeholder forums were launched and functional during the financial year 2013/14. The Late Registration of Births (LRB) was reported as a major problem and the DHA planned to ensure that a strategy was developed and implemented in nine (9) provinces to reduce LRB.