After decades of promising it, the department of home affairs is finally moving ahead with its plans to replace South Africa’s green, bar-coded identity books with new-fangled ID cards. And the technology built into the new cards, supplied by international digital security specialist Gemalto, is pretty neat
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Green, barcoded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, home affairs minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. “We will begin with the issuing of the cards to new applicants and those who need reissuing of identity documents from July this year,” she told reporters in Pretoria. Altech Card Solutions had