{"id":85691,"date":"2026-02-25T07:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nxumalo-apologizes-for-id-card-service-suspension"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:19:00","slug":"nxumalo-apologizes-for-id-card-service-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nxumalo-apologizes-for-id-card-service-suspension","title":{"rendered":"Nxumalo Apologizes for ID Card Service Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong> <\/span><b>Nhlanhla Nxumalo, the Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs has released a statement, apologizing to the Nation for the previous suspension of Identity Document (ID) cards services as operations resume.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry understands that the suspension of ID card services has caused inconvenience to many citizens, and we sincerely regret any disruption this may have caused,\u201d reads the statement in part, dated 22nd February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Eswatini<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Nhlanhla Nxumalo, the Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs has released a statement, apologizing to the Nation for the previous suspension of Identity Document (ID) cards services as operations resume. \u201cThe Ministry understands that the suspension of ID card services has caused inconvenience to many citizens, and we sincerely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-85691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nxumalo Apologizes for ID Card Service Suspension - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Eswatini. 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