Home Affairs is accelerating the rollout of smart ID cards through banks and digital systems [SOUND]

# Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, says the department is accelerating the rollout of smart ID cards through banks and digital systems. According to the South African identity verification platform VerifyNow, impersonation fraud using green ID books has increased by 400-percent year on year in South Africa, as fraudsters use artificial intelligence to exploit the legacy identity system. Schreiber says the green ID book is highly vulnerable to fraud, identity theft and document laundering: