{"id":8889,"date":"2024-03-20T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datanamixdev.wpengine.com\/media\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:21:21","slug":"home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Affairs can&#8217;t block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The blocking of IDs by the Department of Home Affairs without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Court Judge Elmarie van der Schyff said the Home Affairs director-general has a responsibility to protect the integrity of the national population register by &#8220;placing a marker&#8221; against any suspicious ID, however, blocking someone&#8217;s ID without following any just administrative procedure &#8220;constitutes a mischief&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/southafrica\/news\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules-20240117\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blocking of IDs by the Department of Home Affairs without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional. High Court Judge Elmarie van der Schyff said the Home Affairs director-general has a responsibility to protect the integrity of the national population register by &#8220;placing a marker&#8221; against any suspicious ID, however, blocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[170,169,171,167,168,172],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-watch","tag-block-id","tag-blocked-id","tag-court-ruling","tag-dha","tag-home-affairs","tag-south-african-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Home Affairs can&#039;t block your ID without notice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The blocking of IDs by the DHA without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Home Affairs can&#039;t block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The blocking of IDs by the DHA without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Datanamix - News and Blog Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-20T09:20:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-20T09:21:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Datanamix\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Datanamix\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Datanamix\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#\/schema\/person\/15a4fcc770dade8927b9afd3f8abd98c\"},\"headline\":\"Home Affairs can&#8217;t block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-20T09:20:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-20T09:21:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\"},\"wordCount\":84,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Block ID\",\"Blocked ID\",\"Court Ruling\",\"DHA\",\"Home Affairs\",\"South African News\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News Watch\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\",\"name\":\"Home Affairs can't block your ID without notice\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-20T09:20:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-20T09:21:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#\/schema\/person\/15a4fcc770dade8927b9afd3f8abd98c\"},\"description\":\"The blocking of IDs by the DHA without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"Home Affairs can't block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Home Affairs can&#8217;t block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/\",\"name\":\"Datanamix - News and Blog Media\",\"description\":\"Datanamix Credit Bureau Blog Site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#\/schema\/person\/15a4fcc770dade8927b9afd3f8abd98c\",\"name\":\"Datanamix\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f08fbc4628316c763e8b2ba28565fed8cf612b3605421ac56c3e3c0711e2e943?s=96&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f08fbc4628316c763e8b2ba28565fed8cf612b3605421ac56c3e3c0711e2e943?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f08fbc4628316c763e8b2ba28565fed8cf612b3605421ac56c3e3c0711e2e943?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Datanamix\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Home Affairs can't block your ID without notice","description":"The blocking of IDs by the DHA without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Home Affairs can't block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules","og_description":"The blocking of IDs by the DHA without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/","og_site_name":"Datanamix - News and Blog Media","article_published_time":"2024-03-20T09:20:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-03-20T09:21:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Datanamix","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Datanamix","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/"},"author":{"name":"Datanamix","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#\/schema\/person\/15a4fcc770dade8927b9afd3f8abd98c"},"headline":"Home Affairs can&#8217;t block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules","datePublished":"2024-03-20T09:20:23+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-20T09:21:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/"},"wordCount":84,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png","keywords":["Block ID","Blocked ID","Court Ruling","DHA","Home Affairs","South African News"],"articleSection":["News Watch"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/","url":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/","name":"Home Affairs can't block your ID without notice","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png","datePublished":"2024-03-20T09:20:23+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-20T09:21:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#\/schema\/person\/15a4fcc770dade8927b9afd3f8abd98c"},"description":"The blocking of IDs by the DHA without notice, timeous investigation and appeal processes, has been declared unconstitutional.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Commissioner-of-the-South-African-Revenue-Service-Edward-Kieswetter-3.png","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"Home Affairs can't block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/2024\/03\/20\/home-affairs-cant-block-your-id-without-notice-investigation-and-appeal-process-court-rules\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Home Affairs can&#8217;t block your ID without notice, investigation and appeal process, court rules"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/","name":"Datanamix - News and Blog Media","description":"Datanamix Credit Bureau Blog Site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/#\/schema\/person\/15a4fcc770dade8927b9afd3f8abd98c","name":"Datanamix","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f08fbc4628316c763e8b2ba28565fed8cf612b3605421ac56c3e3c0711e2e943?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f08fbc4628316c763e8b2ba28565fed8cf612b3605421ac56c3e3c0711e2e943?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f08fbc4628316c763e8b2ba28565fed8cf612b3605421ac56c3e3c0711e2e943?s=96&r=g","caption":"Datanamix"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datanamix.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}