President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet has approved a new Identity Management Policy for South Africa, following an extensive public consultation in 2021.
This policy will replace the current Identification Act of 1997, which establishes the National Population Register and also specify its scope in the mandatory records that are captured on it, cabinet said in a statement on Friday .
In a presentation to parliament in November 2021, the department’s chief information officer, Sihle Mthiyane, said that this would include proposed changes to ID numbers in South Africa, and references to a person’s gender. The next digit was used until the late 1980s to indicate a person’s race. This has been eliminated and old ID numbers were reissued to remove this.
“The numbers on the ID are binary in nature, assuming South Africans are either male or female. Which is unfair, exclusionary and unconstitutional,” he said. “We held a dialogue with the LGBTQIA+ community, who advised that the future of ID numbers should not be limiting.”
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