Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs will today deploy mobile units to issue ID’s to residents of the Khayamandi Informal settlement who lost their documents following a fire.
A total of 900 shacks at the Stellenbosch, Western Cape informal settlement were burnt down, leaving about 4500 persons displaced and many without enabling documents, such as Identity Documents and Birth Certificates.
The department’s mobile offices as well as officials will be stationed at the informal settlement until next Tuesday [26 March 2013].
Additionally the department’s director general Mkuseli Apleni has waived fees that are required upon a second application of such documents.
This will allow for the victims of the fire in Khayamandi to apply for the Home Affairs documents for free. - SAnews.gov.za
