{"id":49295,"date":"2026-10-28T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49295"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:33:00","slug":"sa-home-affairs-to-extend-operating-hours-ahead-of-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-home-affairs-to-extend-operating-hours-ahead-of-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Home Affairs to extend operating hours ahead of local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Department of Home Affairs has announced that it will temporarily extend its operating hours ahead of next week\u2019s local government elections to assist citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">From November 2 to 4, all Home Affairs offices will be open from 8 am to 6 pm (local time) to facilitate applications for and collection of identity documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The department\u2019s Spokeperson Ndileka Cola says \u201cBut also, on the day of elections which is the November 4, we are going to open from 7 o\u2019clock in the morning until 21:00 PM in the evening. This is to ensure that people are able to access their documents that will enable them to exercise their democratic right of voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49295","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"From November 2 to 4, all Home Affairs offices will be open from 8 am to 6 pm (local time).","published_date":"","news_description":"From November 2 to 4, all Home Affairs offices will be open from 8 am to 6 pm (local time).","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49295","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49297,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49295\/revisions\/49297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}