NEW HOME AFFAIRS SERVICE CHECKS IF YOU’RE ALIVE

NEW HOME AFFAIRS SERVICE CHECKS IF YOU’RE ALIVE

25 Mar 2009 by Seth Rotherham in Cape Town Crazy, Quality Humour, Uncool

I’m so stoked. The South African Department of Home Affairs obviously believe that pinching yourself is not enough. They have very cleverly released an incredibly useful new online verification service, which let’s you type in your ID number and find out if you’re dead or alive! I know – how awesome?

Of course I’m not joking! It says, “To verify your ID status, please enter your ID number.” Brilliant!

Check it out!

CLICK HERE to check if you are dead or alive

It’s about time – I had a feeling I was living some kind of dream – and now I find out everything is REAL! I popped in my ID number and look!

I’M ALIVE!!!

Wow! Thank God for that!

It’s SUCH a useful tool. Very handy if you find yourself at the receiving end of a witch hunt, with the community out to get you, claiming you are some kind of a demon.

Does that ever happen to you? I get it a lot. Well don’t panic – that’s what Home Affairs is there for!

Simply take them (when they catch you) to this website, type in your ID number and show them the result.

Done!

Unless, of course, you are dead….?

[thanks james]
- ← EARTH HOUR 2009
- HONESTY →
- Andrew
  
  I think I would prefer that the Gov thinks I’m dead quite frankly. No taxes, fines, having to vote etc etc.
- http://idale.co.za idale
  
  Hear this on the radio yesterday morning…
  
  The beauty of this site is that you can keep going back time after time to reassure yourself! OR, if you’re wrongly accused of being frigid, just send your lover the url.
  
  DID YOU KNOW, You can also SMS “L” followed by your ID No to 32551 to check if you’re alive when you’re not near a computer!
- Dianne
  
  Oh what an incredible thing! And here I was thinking that the Department of Home Affairs had SO much work to do that we wait 3-4 months just for a copy of a document. Now I know that they are really hard at work doing extremely valuable work. YOOHOO!!
- Rashid
  
  You can also check to see if your married…
  http://www.home-affairs.gov.za/status/marital_status.asp
- Dom
  
  Bahahaha – Only in SA
- http://www.2oceansvibe.com tony
  
  and i thought living the holiday was over
- http://namibier.blogspot.com/ Der/die/das Namibia/n
  
  Every flippin newspaper in Germany is running this story on the first page as a sign of how chaotic (South) Africa is. This is how the stories typically start: “Chaos and widespread misuse of data in South Africa led to a macabre service …”.
  
  When I first read the story, I thought it was a hoax, till I got the links here. God, how amazing! What chaos are the Europaens talking about? This is high-tech at its best, or?
  
  Has anybody alive been caught dead yet?
- http://URL YVONNE
  
  the dead or alive section on the website has been down from 1/6
- Pamela
  
  They hav another page where you can check if you are married or not too….
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NEW HOME AFFAIRS SERVICE CHECKS IF YOU’RE ALIVE

25 Mar 2009 by Seth Rotherham in Cape Town Crazy, Quality Humour, Uncool

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