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ESTATE NEWS

VETTING AND

ENROLMENT

UPDATE 2020

lue Valley Estate has come a long way non-compliant employees on the system. The payment methods are as follows:
with the resolutions adopted in 2019 Homeowners were awarded a grace period • The amount can be added onto the
Bwhich sought to curb crime and / or in 2019; we had the enrolment staff working resident’s levy accounts / card swipe at the
incidents in the Estate. Below is a summary late and coming in on weekends with the aim office / EFT.
of the said resolution, for ease of reference. of speeding up the vetting and enrolment • No cash will be accepted.
As one would like to imagine a crime-free process.
community to raise children and better
manage the risk of whom we expose our The biggest challenge we have encountered Vetting office operating hours:
families to. in the week that we have been operational in • Place: Haddington / Contractors’ Gate
2020 is that a lot of fraudulent documentation • Monday – Friday: 07h00 – 16h00
To provide for the conducting of Security / has been presented at the enrolment office by • Closed on weekends and Public holidays.
Criminal checks on current and future tenants, employees. We have a planned intervention
contractors, service providers, domestic with the SAPS, TMPD and the Department
employees and staff is to ensure that persons of Home Affairs. This seeks to address the The vetting process includes residents’
with a criminal record are not allowed to high number of fraudulent asylum-seeker permanent employees who are coming in
lease a property or conduct business, or to be documents presented to the enrolment with codes and phone call facilities daily or
employed in the Estate. This is also to prevent team. weekly. After the deadline of the 13/12/2019
criminal incidents and due to the high and as communicated, security does not
volume of illegal and fake documents being We have strengthened the relationship make any phone calls or accept codes for
submitted upon enrolment, this process with the Home Affairs Department to curb those who failed to go through the vetting
needs to comply with current legislation. the irregularities regarding fraudulent process. Please ensure that your short-term
documentations and to speed up the employees have their identification available
The vetting process lost momentum in process, as such we are pleading for when arriving at the gate for verification
December 2019, due to the fact that most cooperation from the affected homeowners purposes.
homeowners were on holiday and their / employers.
employees were on leave. The festive season We can confirm that 813 employees have
saw minimal movement due to employees NB: It is the homeowner’s responsibility been vetted in the past three weeks. Out of
who were denied access as they were to ensure that they employ staff who are 36 asylum seekers’ documents submitted
not vetted. However, the momentum is compliant or meet the requirements as set to Home Affairs to be verified, only one was
now building up as more employees have out by the Republic for the employment of found to be original and the remaining 35
resumed their duties. foreign nationals. were confirmed to be fraudulent. Out of the
18 passports submitted with work permits,
It has come to our attention that some Take note of the following all the work permits were confirmed to be
homeowners are still undermining the safety requirements for the vetting process: fraudulent by Home Affairs. This may explain
of the community as they drive out to collect SA Identity Document / Valid Asylum / some of the reasons that Blue Valley has been
strangers from the road at random. It cannot subjected to certain incidents in the past
Passports with valid work permits.
be stressed enough that this deviation is with no evident breach to physical security
most likely compromising the safety of all the structures that are in place.
other homeowners who took the initiative to The payments are as follows:
comply with the rules. • SA ID holders: R230 which covers the Please do not hesitate to contact us for
Identity document verification and
criminal check process. anything further in this regard. BV
We are receiving numerous queries on the • Asylum seekers and passport holders’
enrolment process, some of which have fees are R190 each, which covers only Kind Regards
no bearing other than to to destroy this the criminal background checks during
initiative. Please be warned that we will not the process of registration. Identification Robert Hlongwane
compromise these standards in the best document verification will be carried out
interest of the community at large. We cannot by the Department of Home Affairs, which
do any favours for any homeowners, neither approximately could take five working
will there be any exceptions for enrolling
days or more.

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