One of the first things I did after my appointment as Home Affairs Minister was to visit our visa backlog team, with the message that we want a Christmas without the decade-old backlog hanging over us. Today, Deputy Minister Nzuza and I went back to celebrate this team for their incredible work - with all of us dressed in Christmas outfits!
Within a matter of months, we have processed an incredible 261 845 applications and will hit 94% backlog eradication by year end - with only mopping up and appeals remaining. In fact, our team is working so fast that we are struggling to keep up with printing and issuing outcomes.
This has been a year of inspiring progress at Home Affairs. Next year, we will take the lessons learnt from this project and the foundation we’ve laid to fully digitalise and automate our processes, and take service delivery to new heights.
We love our country and we are proud of the contribution we are making as one team, with one dream. South Africa, this is your
#TeamHomeAffairs under the GNU in action! 🇿🇦🎄