South Africans without ID documents not only pose a security risk‚ they also pose a “socio-economic risk” of dying and being buried without officialdom knowing they ever existed.This was the warning from Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba‚ who says there are 200‚000 uncollected IDs and 5‚000 uncollected green barcoded IDs.Gigaba was briefing the media as the chair of the governance and administration cluster of cabinet on Thursday.“There are still South Africans who don’t have IDs. We will continue to assist those when they come forward. We continue to assist South Africans because who don’t deny any South Africans their natural right.“The risks are economic as well as security related. Ideally‚ we would like to know who is in the country‚ where they live‚ what their ID or passport numbers are‚ what their Visa card number is‚ where they obtained it and other details‚” said Gigaba.He added that the government was aware that South Africa attracts large volumes of “mixed migration flows”‚ resulting in a lot immigrants who are undocumented‚ on top of the number of South Africans that are undocumented.“There are many security risks that pertain to the police and other institutions‚ but there are also socio-economic risks. For example‚ when a person with no ID passes away‚ they will be laid to rest without them ever having been to known to exist‚ except among their group of friends or family.“It becomes difficult because your burial societies‚ your funerals before you are buried‚ a death certificate must be issued and before it is issued‚ we check at home affairs whether we know of you. It becomes difficult when we have to issue a handwritten certificate for a South African who never had a birth certificate while they had lived‚” said Gigaba.He said there were a number of other risks and challenges.“It’s difficult to know how many South Africans still don’t have IDs. We think the number would have dropped significantly now since we launched the late registration of birth programme around 2005‚” said Gigaba.He also noted how prevalent fraudulent baptismal certificates were where people tried to prove that they’re South African when they’re not.“The process to determine the veracity of claims will have to become more stringent‚” said Gigaba.TMG Digital/TMG Parliamentary Bureau..