Last Wednesday Dlamini-Zuma unveiled the credit card-size cards, which will encode personal and biometric information.
Dlamini-Zuma said the smartcard would allow citizens to have a modern identification card rather than an ID book, which was easy to forge.
In the unlikely event that attempts to forge a smart card are made, such an act could be easily picked up by Home Affairs officials.
This is not the first time that Dlamini-Zuma has scored a first for South Africa.
When she was minister of health, Dlamini-Zuma introduced the Tobacco Products Control law in 2000 that made South Africa one of the first countries in the world to ban smoking in public places.
This time around Dlamini-Zuma has done it again with the new smartcard IDs that will be rolled out next year.
South Africans will be able to get their new cards just two weeks after applying for them.
We take our hats off to the continuous service improvements at Home Affairs and urge other departments to follow suit.
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Quelle/Source: The New Age Online, 01.05.2012
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