Home Affairs to hand over IDs to KZN floods victims

• Published date: 06 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala are today scheduled to hand over enabling documents which includes IDs to people who lost their documents as a result of the floods.

The Deputy Minister, the Premier and KwaDukuza Mayor, Lindile Nhaca, will hand over the documents at the KwaDukuza Municipality at iLembe District and also monitor service delivery following the recent floods.

The department has been working with the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government, Ethekwini Municipality and the District Municipalities of iLembe, Ugu and Umgungundlovu to help people resume their normal lives.

Central to that has been the issuing of death certificates, reissuing of birth certificates and IDs that were lost as a result of the disaster.

The reissuing of these documents is at no cost to the affected communities.

The eligibility criteria for this intervention includes local councillors verifying the names of people who lost their documents supplied to the Disaster Management Operations...