South Africans can expect to have access to hundreds more bank branches doing Smart IDs and Passports this year.

Capitec revealed how much it will charge for smart ID applications at its branches, using self-service terminals to expand ...

Capitec has revealed how much it will cost South Africans to apply for a Smart ID at its branches under the new Home Affairs model.

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has issued a record 4 002 964 smart ID cards in the 2025 calendar year — the highest rate of delivery in the history of the department. This milestone represents a ...

The Department of Home Affairs says it is accelerating the rollout of smart ID cards amid ongoing efforts to retire the green ID books. This as more than four million smart cards were issued last year ...

WASHINGTON — Imagine a so-called smart card that contained your U.S. government-checked identity, complete with biometric identifiers, plus your three credit-card accounts, your check card account, ...

The Department of Home Affairs issued over four million smart identity cards in 2025, marking the highest annual delivery ...

However, Home Affairs admitted that the current legacy system allows names captured on the NPR to be fully transmitted to the green ID book, but not to smart ID cards as yet. “The new live capture ...

As the debate over a national personal identification system intensifies in the wake of Sept. 11, the smart card industry is gearing up a campaign to make sure its chip-based technology is the leading ...