A cable connecting the department of home affairs to the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has broken, causing all its systems to go offline nationwide and leaving the public stranded.

Technicians are attending to the problem, the department said in a statement, but in the meantime services remain limited to passport collections and death certificates...

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