Prepaid Cellphone Users Have to Register Simcard
From 1 July all cellphone users in South Africa will have to register their simcards over the next 18 months in accordance with new legislation.
When you purchase a new simcard, you will have to pitch up with a proof of residence and ID document at the purchase point, as with the FICA banking requirements.
This is said to be a way to curb crime.
Oh really? As if criminals are stupid enough to to arrive with ID and address in hand.
They will just steal our sims and continue doing what they’re doing.
Here’s the kicker: if you live in an informal housing residence, then you can go to your nearest police station to get an affidavit noting this fact.
Tourists wont be excluded from the madness.
They will have to show their passports and probably hotel or other address where they’re staying.
What next!
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