The Registrar-General's Department has increased its production capacity for passports from 60 to 800 a day and is targeting to print 8 000 in the same period in the next few weeks following the delivery of new equipment and consumables.
Production had plummeted as a result of foreign currency shortages that were affecting the procurement of consumables with the backlog currently at 300 000.
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