Pretoria - Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will travel to Germany meet with her counterpart there to discuss immigration and civic practices.
Dlamini Zuma's visit comes against the backdrop of efforts to re-engineer Home Affairs as a security department and with the aim to explore international best practice on the management of civic and immigration affairs.
The minister, together with her delegation, will hold discussions with German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Dr Ole Schroder, to learn more about the German model for dealing with immigration, refugees, asylum seekers and civic management.
Dlamini Zuma will also visit the German Bundesdruckerei (Government Printing Works)
to share experiences on the printing of idenity documents, birth and death certificates, as well as other documents.
She will end her German visit with a keynote address at Humbolt University during a ceremony to honour the second winner of the Caroline von Humboldt award in research, Constanza Toninelli.
The minister's three-day visit starts on Tuesday.
