{
  "id": 11152597,
  "title": "South Africa’s digital ID is here – but you can’t have it yet",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/south-africas-digital-id-is-here-but-you-cant-have-it-yet",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-01T09:03:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCentral",
    "slug": "techcentral",
    "url": "https://techcentral.co.za/south-africa-digital-id-schreiber-demo/286764/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber has demonstrated a prototype digital ID linked to the population register.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}