{"id":236,"date":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/south-africans-can-soon-apply-for-smart-id-cards-at-the-bank\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:06:22","slug":"south-africans-can-soon-apply-for-smart-id-cards-at-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africans-can-soon-apply-for-smart-id-cards-at-the-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans can soon apply for Smart ID Cards at the bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of April, eligible citizens will be able to apply for their Smart ID Cards at the Home Affair\u2019s kiosks in their nearest bank, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said this when he led a briefing by government\u2019s Governance and Administration Cluster at the Imbizo Media Centre in Parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said this would be a pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said to date, two banks \u2013 FNB and Standard Bank \u2013 have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Home Affairs for the pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/south-africa\/s-africans-can-soon-apply-smart-id-cards-bank?utm_content=buffere88a3&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer#.VONtQNMbaY4.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of April, eligible citizens will be able to apply for their Smart ID Cards at the Home Affair\u2019s kiosks in their nearest bank, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. The Minister said this when he led a briefing by government\u2019s Governance and Administration Cluster at the Imbizo Media Centre in Parliament on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","region-southern-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}