{"id":47081,"date":"2026-10-02T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47081"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:45:15","slug":"sa-green-id-book-to-be-phased-out-by-march-2027","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-green-id-book-to-be-phased-out-by-march-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"SA green ID book to be phased out by March 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">South Africa (SA) is set to phase out its long-standing green identity document, with production due to end on March 31, 2027.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber announced the move during the launch of his department&#8217;s Quantum Leap vision programme at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The green identity document will officially cease to be recognised as a valid form of identification from March 31, 2027, giving millions of SA citizens a 12-month period to replace it with the Smart ID card.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The phase-out forms part of government&#8217;s broader drive to modernise the country&#8217;s identification system and expand access to digital and smart identity services.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Authorities have urged citizens who still use the green ID book to apply for Smart IDs before the deadline to avoid disruptions in accessing services and conducting official transactions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47082,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47081","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA set to phase out Green ID","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47083,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47081\/revisions\/47083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}