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Home Affairs to do away with biometric process for SA flyers

Source: SABC, 08/07/2016

South Africans travelling abroad will in future be exempt from a
controversial biometric system at the country's international airports
says Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba.

Gigaba says Home Affairs has realised that the system has been causing
major delays with flights to and from Johannesburg's OR Tambo
International Airport.

The Home Affairs Department introduced the system for all travellers
leaving and entering South Africa a year ago.

Home Affairs spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete says regular travellers
will not be required to queue to submit information.

Tshwete says, "We would give travellers assurances that once your
information has been captured in our system, it remains in our system.
As time goes on you will see the travel on time improves drastically
because many people are frequent travellers and will not require the
long process of submitting information when they do come for the
second time. They would go through a shorter process."

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