Date: 30/07/2005
Source: Department of Home Affairs
Title: Gigaba: Lokisa Ditokomane Campaign
Lokisa Ditokomane Campaign
The Honourable Mayor of Umsinga, Mr SB Majola
Speaker of Msinga Municipality, Councillor SG Masimula
Councillors
Member of Provincial Legislature Rev CJ
Mthethwa
Member of Parliament Ms P Bhengu
Member of Parliament Mr N Nene
Members of the Umsinga Community
We gather here today to make right the wrongs committed against the majority of the people of our country, to take away the indignity and suffering that our people have had to endure from a system that was determined to make them sub-citizens. Wrongly captured details of our people have by and large robbed many of an identity in the country of their forebears and that of their own.
Some of the resulting problems of this apartheid legacy has been that our people cannot access services that our government offers the citizenry, some of these services are life preserving and vastly improve the quality and standard of life of the people of our country. As a caring, compassionate and responsive Department we cannot be spectators and simply watch the sufferings of our people continue.
It is for this reason that the Department has come up with a programme that will restore the dignity of our people, a programme that will also make it easy for people of our country to access governments’ services and socio-economic opportunities. This programme that I spoke of earlier is called “Lokisa Ditokomane/Lungisa Izincwadi”. Many of you might have already heard about the programme on TV and radio.
Through this programme, we as a Department admit to mistakes done, largely not of our own doing, during the capturing of details by our officials. We also are in the process of re-engineering business processes to ensure a reduction of erroneous capturing of details.
Between the months of April when the campaign started and June statistics show that 37 533 people have come forward to have their details corrected, of this number 2535 people come from this province. Statistics also show this province is the fourth most affected by this problem.
The afore-said has necessitated that the Lokisa Ditokomane campaign continues in earnest so that the greater majority of our people can access services and be active participants within the country’s economy.
So if you’ve had your name wrongly spelt, your date of birth wrongly captured, your gender altered or you’ve been declared dead yet you are here today with us, you have until 31st August to have all of the above fixed at no cost to you. We also have here today our state of the art mobile units, which will capture live the corrections you want made on your document.
Remember, corrections are only free of charge if the mistakes were committed by the Department, If there are any corrections to be made that were of your own making then you will have to pay for such.
As alluded before, we as a Department have had to re-engineer our business processes as result of the Department’s Turn Around Strategy which seeks to change the way we do things so that we get different results, over and above that we have also had look into our service delivery capacity so as to reposition the Department to be able to effectively deliver on its mandate and implement its programmes like Lokisa Ditokomane. To this extent we have invested significantly in human capital acquisition and infrastructure roll out.
This is largely due to the realisation that the Department plays a role in improving social security and in programmes that seek to eradicate poverty. From initiatives such as on-line registration of births and deaths at hospitals to issuing of enabling documents to citizens eligible to apply for social grants, the Department is critical.
As we go towards local government elections the Department would like to mobilise communities to register for ID’s in droves this in order to enable the citizenry to exercise this one very important right, of voting for a government of their choice.
It has come to the attention of the Department that there are community members who having made applications for all enabling documents, do not then collect them. As a result the Department is sitting with a lot of ID’s. It is therefore urged that all people who have not as yet collected their ID’s should do so.
In my address to the National Assembly on the 18th of May on the occasion of the Budget Vote and in citing the Freedom Charter, I said, “In asserting that”,” South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”, “The Freedom Charter rejected the principles of exclusion, bigotry and discrimination upon which was founded the system, policy and philosophy of apartheid”
It is this principle that drives the Department to be a centre of excellence in service delivery so as to enable South Africa to truly belong to all who live in it not only in words but in deeds as well.
Thank you.
Issued by: Department of Home Affairs
30 July 2005
Source: Department of Home Affairs
Title: Gigaba: Lokisa Ditokomane Campaign
Lokisa Ditokomane Campaign
The Honourable Mayor of Umsinga, Mr SB Majola
Speaker of Msinga Municipality, Councillor SG Masimula
Councillors
Member of Provincial Legislature Rev CJ
Mthethwa
Member of Parliament Ms P Bhengu
Member of Parliament Mr N Nene
Members of the Umsinga Community
We gather here today to make right the wrongs committed against the majority of the people of our country, to take away the indignity and suffering that our people have had to endure from a system that was determined to make them sub-citizens. Wrongly captured details of our people have by and large robbed many of an identity in the country of their forebears and that of their own.
Some of the resulting problems of this apartheid legacy has been that our people cannot access services that our government offers the citizenry, some of these services are life preserving and vastly improve the quality and standard of life of the people of our country. As a caring, compassionate and responsive Department we cannot be spectators and simply watch the sufferings of our people continue.
It is for this reason that the Department has come up with a programme that will restore the dignity of our people, a programme that will also make it easy for people of our country to access governments’ services and socio-economic opportunities. This programme that I spoke of earlier is called “Lokisa Ditokomane/Lungisa Izincwadi”. Many of you might have already heard about the programme on TV and radio.
Through this programme, we as a Department admit to mistakes done, largely not of our own doing, during the capturing of details by our officials. We also are in the process of re-engineering business processes to ensure a reduction of erroneous capturing of details.
Between the months of April when the campaign started and June statistics show that 37 533 people have come forward to have their details corrected, of this number 2535 people come from this province. Statistics also show this province is the fourth most affected by this problem.
The afore-said has necessitated that the Lokisa Ditokomane campaign continues in earnest so that the greater majority of our people can access services and be active participants within the country’s economy.
So if you’ve had your name wrongly spelt, your date of birth wrongly captured, your gender altered or you’ve been declared dead yet you are here today with us, you have until 31st August to have all of the above fixed at no cost to you. We also have here today our state of the art mobile units, which will capture live the corrections you want made on your document.
Remember, corrections are only free of charge if the mistakes were committed by the Department, If there are any corrections to be made that were of your own making then you will have to pay for such.
As alluded before, we as a Department have had to re-engineer our business processes as result of the Department’s Turn Around Strategy which seeks to change the way we do things so that we get different results, over and above that we have also had look into our service delivery capacity so as to reposition the Department to be able to effectively deliver on its mandate and implement its programmes like Lokisa Ditokomane. To this extent we have invested significantly in human capital acquisition and infrastructure roll out.
This is largely due to the realisation that the Department plays a role in improving social security and in programmes that seek to eradicate poverty. From initiatives such as on-line registration of births and deaths at hospitals to issuing of enabling documents to citizens eligible to apply for social grants, the Department is critical.
As we go towards local government elections the Department would like to mobilise communities to register for ID’s in droves this in order to enable the citizenry to exercise this one very important right, of voting for a government of their choice.
It has come to the attention of the Department that there are community members who having made applications for all enabling documents, do not then collect them. As a result the Department is sitting with a lot of ID’s. It is therefore urged that all people who have not as yet collected their ID’s should do so.
In my address to the National Assembly on the 18th of May on the occasion of the Budget Vote and in citing the Freedom Charter, I said, “In asserting that”,” South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”, “The Freedom Charter rejected the principles of exclusion, bigotry and discrimination upon which was founded the system, policy and philosophy of apartheid”
It is this principle that drives the Department to be a centre of excellence in service delivery so as to enable South Africa to truly belong to all who live in it not only in words but in deeds as well.
Thank you.
Issued by: Department of Home Affairs
30 July 2005
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