The Department of Home Affairs issued more than four million smart ID cards in 2025, the highest annual total in its history.

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has issued a record 4 002 964 smart ID cards in the 2025 calendar year -- the highest ...

Replacing physical driving licence cards and discs with a digital-only system can be done “very rapidly” and will reduce ...

Tech boost helps home affairs dept hit record smart ID output By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 30 Jan 2026Smart ID cards are key to the DHA’s modernisation programme. (Photograph by DHA) The ...

Smart IDs are more secure than the green barcoded ID books, which have long been criticised for being vulnerable to fraud.

New smart driver licence testing centres (DLTCs) are being rolled out in underserved areas in Gauteng to help reduce backlogs ...

Digital upgrades and increased bank services pushed SA’s Department of Home Affairs to issue a record number of smart ID ...

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The Department of Home Affairs has achieved a historic milestone by issuing over 4 million Smart ID cards in 2025 - the highest annual total ever recorded. This 17% increase from the previous year ...

The GPW previously revealed that it could produce smart ID cards at a maximum rate of five million cards per annum. At this ...

The milestone marks a 17% increase over the 3,427,468 smart IDs issued in 2024, which itself had set a new record.