May 15, 2017 –

South Africa took a major step toward the use of digital identity to secure the delivery of a variety of government services in 2013, with the introduction of a national smart ID card embedded with fingerprint data.

Today the system is progressing toward being used for driver’s licenses, voter registration, and all other social services, Director General of the Department of Home Affairs for South Africa, Mkuseli Apleni, told an audience at ID4Africa 2017 last month. However, it faces an enrollment backlog of millions of people, along with roughly a million new applicants each year…

http://www.biometricupdate.com/201705/evolving-partnerships-drive-south-africas-digital-identity-program