The pastor has been unable to get the department to correct mistakes in his identity document since 2004.
A LIMPOPO pastor for the Assemblies of God Church has accused officials at the Department of Home Affairs in Polokwane and Tzaneen of failing to do their job.
The pastor has been unable to get the department to correct mistakes in his identity document since 2004.
Pastor Sevha Cassias Shikweni, 40, from Xihoko village outside Tzaneen, applied for a new ID in 2004 after he lost his original book.
Shikweni has been applying for a new document every year since 2004 because the ID books contained either the wrong picture or name.
"Last year I was forced to register my car with my wife's ID book details because I could not prove my identity," said Shikweni, who currently has six different ID books.
Shikweni said his problems escalated in December 2007 when he wanted to open an account at a furniture shop in Tzaneen.
"I was baffled when the officials told me that my name was at the credit bureau and that I owed several shops money for clothes I had purchased on credit.
"When I went to Home Affairs in Tzaneen they always advised me to apply for a new ID but always came up with the same mistakes."
The provincial Home Affairs manager in Limpopo, Nthoriseng Motsitsi, said Shikweni needed an affidavit from the police stating he had lost his ID.
Pastor at end of his tether over invalid IDs
The pastor has been unable to get the department to correct mistakes in his identity document since 2004.
A LIMPOPO pastor for the Assemblies of God Church has accused officials at the Department of Home Affairs in Polokwane and Tzaneen of failing to do their job.
The pastor has been unable to get the department to correct mistakes in his identity document since 2004.
Pastor Sevha Cassias Shikweni, 40, from Xihoko village outside Tzaneen, applied for a new ID in 2004 after he lost his original book.
Shikweni has been applying for a new document every year since 2004 because the ID books contained either the wrong picture or name.
"Last year I was forced to register my car with my wife's ID book details because I could not prove my identity," said Shikweni, who currently has six different ID books.
Shikweni said his problems escalated in December 2007 when he wanted to open an account at a furniture shop in Tzaneen.
"I was baffled when the officials told me that my name was at the credit bureau and that I owed several shops money for clothes I had purchased on credit.
"When I went to Home Affairs in Tzaneen they always advised me to apply for a new ID but always came up with the same mistakes."
The provincial Home Affairs manager in Limpopo, Nthoriseng Motsitsi, said Shikweni needed an affidavit from the police stating he had lost his ID.
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