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Scenario:

IRMSA
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What it can look like if it happens now
RISK REPORT 2024/25

DHA experiences a pervasive systems failure. No identity documents, passports, or visas can be processed. Affected citizens
are unable to transact or access services for which proof of identify is required (e.g. registering marriages child births to add
dependants on medical aids, hospitalisation, insurance claims, social grants, contracts, and purchasing of property). Those
whose passports and visas cannot be processed are trapped in foreign countries and international work travel is interrupted.
Citizenship applications, refugee and asylum services are not rendered leading to concentration at borders or illegal border
crossings. Deaths cannot be registered leading to insurance payout delays, fraudulent accessing of grants, deceased estates not
being executed with dependants unable to access crucial funding.
Immediate resilience/emergency preparedness:

Medium impact in the short term

Safety and crime prevention Waste Health and
management education
• Develop/preserve crime
investigation resources to achieve • Cultivate waste management and • Optimise fire, natural disasters, and
case resolution targets and recycling practices. other peril protection (including
prosecution schedules. • Build effective waste management unrest, strikes, and business
• Protect and diversify forensic/DNA plants (with capacity aligned to disruption) at hospitals and schools.
facilities (refer alternative resource population and environmentally • Protect supply chain and warehouse
models in SADC region). compliant treatment). facilities for pharmaceutical stocks
• Improve investigation efficiencies and medical equipment.
using AI; integrate crime reporting • Reallocate capacity to respond to
and investigation databases to track large scale perils per health and
progress and allocate resources. education facility location.
• Optimise prosecution resources to
address full caseloads, cooperate
with private prosecutors to fill gaps
and address delayed cases.

Infrastructure and logistics Communication Prioritised, honest, cost-
development (roads, rail, channels effective services from
bridges, harbours, airports) local authorities and State
• Implement national redundancy organisations
• Implement medium- to long- standards and capacity for
term planning for road and rail communication networks and data • Protect assets and infrastructure at
infrastructure (response plans for reinstatement. local authorities.
storm damages to roads, railways, • Implement minimum resilience • Benchmark capacity development
bridges). standards for major communication per location aligned to population
• Enhance emergency response plans and infrastructure service providers. and service requirements.
for catastrophes at airports and • Benchmark infrastructure funding
harbours. per local authority (budget, value
• Integrate technology to increase procurement, projects).
effectiveness/capacity and reduce
maintenance and operating costs.

Legal and governance Environmental protection and Disaster support
frameworks that are executed rehabilitation and relief
consistently, timeously, and • Enforce limitation of major sources • Improve disaster management
fairly of air, water, and land pollution through fast and efficient
• Enable multiple access for citizens aligned to regulations. classification of natural disaster
to regional regulators (physical, • Implement immediate response areas after disasters occur.
calls, internet, email). capacity for environmental • Implement immediate capacity and
• Implement cross regional capacity disasters. personnel for disaster response.
management. • Enforce targeted environmental • Enable emergency fund access
quality improvements at for basic reinstatement of natural
corporations and local authorities. habitats, homes and loss of
personal effects.