Passport fraud hindering SA anti-terrorism efforts - US Department of State
Extract from United States govt Country Report on Terrorism 2008
Country Reports on Terrorism 2008
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism....
Chapter 2: Country Reports: Africa Overview
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South Africa
South Africa supported efforts to counter international terrorism and shared financial, law enforcement, and limited intelligence information with the United States. Some analysts believe that elements and support systems for al-Qa'ida (AQ) and/or other extremist groups have a presence within South Africa's generally moderate Muslim community, but it was unclear to what extent foreign terrorist groups have a presence in South Africa. In 2007, the Department of the Treasury designated South African nationals Farhad and Junaid Dockrat as AQ financiers and facilitators, subjecting them to U.S. sanctions.
Border security challenges, socio-cultural attitudes, and document fraud negatively affected the government's ability and efforts to pursue and intervene in counterterrorism initiatives. South African identity and travel documents generally included good security measures, but because of poor administration, lack of institutional capacity, and corruption within the Department of Home Affairs, which is responsible for immigration services, thousands of bona fide South African identity cards, passports, and work/residence permits were fraudulently issued.
South Africa is the only Financial Action Task Force member in Africa and has one of the three Egmont-member Financial Intelligence Units [1] in the region. It is also a member of Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) and as such, has served as a resource for other ESAAMLG members.
2 Opinion(s):
If you lose your ID and happen to be white, you will wait 6 months for a new one. That's what I was told yesterday. The DHA is too "beezy" doing corruption and are totally biased against whites. I am not the only one to claim about discrimination against whites.
Here's a report on Hellopeter from another white - BTW, I have also been told to "call every two weeks". They must be rolling around laughing at whites when they phone "every two weeks" only to be told to keep on phoning "every two weeks":
ID book - does race speed up application process?
THE INCIDENT:
Fri 13 Mar
Myself and a black colleague applied at the DHA on the same day, 3 March 2009. We both recieved an sms confirmation that our ID books were being processed within 24 hours of one another. Two weeks later, he asked me if I was ready to collect mine as he had received his sms informing him that his ID book was ready for collection. I decide to give it a day or two to see if my sms would follow. It didn't. I then called on the following Monday only to be told that my ID book was still being processed and that I should call back in two weeks time. I gave it a week and called again on the following Monday only to be told the same thing, give it another two weeks which would take me up to the 20 April - 2 days before the election. When I asked the call centre person if he could explain why my colleague (without mentioning race) had received his well in advance, he said mine could have been placed on a 'slow persons' desk. Now as time draws closer to voting, I cannot help but wonder if surnames beginning with M, N etc. are not jumping to the front of the queque, while those with more 'english' surnames are being shelved? This does not make sense!!!
Na dude, they check your race and THEN put you in the slow queue if you're white.
It helps to scream at the DHA on a daily basis, and put a post on Hellopeter, which you then forward to their customer "services" department a hundred times. My application for my ID has been pedalled to final checking yesterday before going to printing, as my fingerprints have now been verified. If I had said nothing it would still be sitting in data capture.
Use Hellopeter for complaints. If they don't respond, just e-mail them 100 copies of your original complaint every day. It's easy to copy, paste and send. This will grind their gears and hopefully get them to move their arses.
There is always a chance I finally get my ID with Sipho Tshabalala's photo in it for screaming about their racism.
At least they can't mess up my passport which is EU.
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