Home Affairs to extend operating hours over Easter at key entry points

The department says more officials and senior managers have been deployed to help streamline 1 of the country’s busiest times of the year when it comes to the movement of travellers. The province’s Kosi Bay office on the north coast will be open for an extra 2 hours a day – from 7 in the morning until 6 at night.

The longer operating hours will continue until the 30th of March. Home Affairs’ Mkuseli Apleni says the extra hours will help with traveller volumes.

"We trusting that by adding more hours to facilitate the movement of persons and goods we will minimise the burden of long queues and undue delays while making travel pleasant, he said.

"However success in this regard also depends on people travelling gradually over the entire Easter period and importantly with drivers observing religiously all the rules of the road," Apleni said.

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