# Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber says over 100-thousand Smart ID cards were processed within two months since launching the expanded digital partnership between the Department and commercial banks across the country. He says this initiative aims to eliminate long queues by bringing services to 110 bank branches nationwide, aiming for one-thousand with a five-minute, paperless, and biometric-based application process. Schreiber is urging all South Africans to visit their banks for Smart ID applications:
Minister Schreiber says over 100-thousand Smart ID cards were processed at banks across the country [SOUND]
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