Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber has described TymeBank’s urgent plea for him to reverse his price increase for online identity verification against the national population register (NPR) as an expression of vested interest. 

The minister has slammed the “shameless profiteering” that has taken place on the back of the department of home affairs’ low prices...

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