Thursday, 29 November 2018

Home Affairs ready for busy festive season

The department of Home Affairs is gearing up for the festive season, the department is deploying over 400 additional staff members as well as extending operating hours at the country's busiest port of entries.
Zimbabwans walk across Beitbridge border
Image courtesy of Esa Alexander

Deputy minister Fatima Chohan told journalists that the department was ready to handle increased traffic, in particular at the air and land ports. Chohan said the festive season — officially starting on December 5 until January 9 2019 — heightened movement across the ports of entry and the demand for home affairs services, particularly passport applications.
South Africa's busiest.

Cohan said in the 2017-18 festive season, a total of 8,468,262 movements were captured, comprising arrivals and departures of SA Citizens and foreign nationals. Of these 2,304,449 were citizens movements and 6,163,813 were foreigner's movements.
The country's busiest air and land ports are Lebombo ( SA and Mozambique), Beitbridge ( SA and ZImbabwe), Ficksburg Bridge ( SA and Lesotho) and OR Tambo International Airport.

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