Home Affairs Passport Bungle Continues... 5
Just over a week ago news came out that the UK will no longer be accpeting travellers with temporary SA passports. Now it seems that the Department of Home Affairs has run out of normal passport blanks and can only process a fraction of passport applications and even then only in emergency cases. Add Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to the potential list of targets in the next cabinet reshuffle.
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We run out of petrol, then electricity, now passports. I wonder what’s next?
Hopefully we’ll run out of incompetents next.
I think a quote is in order: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.—Albert Einstein
It seems the SA govt is doing its very best to test the limits of ‘infinity’.
I wonder why it takes up to 2 months for them to renew my passport while it takes a week using postal system in UK?!
When everyone called the department incompetent, I gave them the benfit of the doubt…how could anybody be so stupid as to run out fo paper. BUT NOW THIS JUST PROVES IT- this statement from home affairs, while it is completely contradicitory in itself, basically says that there was never a shortage and the media is sensationalist. (Government info: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2006/06050209151004.htm)
Then, I read this statement by the GCIS, saying their WAS a shortage but that it is ok now since Home Affairs had received the paper delivery mentioned in the first statement. (www.buanews.gov.za – supposedly a news service “offering current government iformation to the media). Now, when they can’t even make a statement without making a stuff up, I get worried.