South Africa's shift to metal ID cards, scheduled for the end of this year, excludes naturalized citizens, sparking debate about fairness, constitutional rights, and potential echoes of past discriminatory practices. While the move is seen as a modernization effort, the exclusion of naturalized citizens and permanent residents raises concerns about their equal treatment and the potential for profiling.
SA’s shift to metal ID cards excludes naturalised citizens, raising concerns about fairness, constitutional rights, and echoes of past discriminatory practices.From the end of this year, your department will no longer be issuing the green ID books. Perhaps you need to tell SABC that this is not the same as saying the books will no longer be valid, as their reporting doesn’t seem to make the distinction.
However, why is it that only people born in SA can obtain the cards? People who are citizens by naturalisation and permanent residents are currently barred from obtaining these IDs, according to your website. As someone who has been a citizen of this country by naturalisation for 25 years – having jumped through the myriad legal hoops of work permit, residence permit, time of residence – I am an interested party.
Please tell us, sir, that the current procedure is merely a logistics exercise – perhaps so you can double check the bona fides of naturalised people to weed out those who have bought their documents.
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