Khama gets first e-passport
A Secure Passport
The Minister of labour and Home affairs, Mr Peter Siele has issued the President Lt gen Ian Khama with the first Botswana e-passport. He said the travel document has a chip based security feature.
Siele noted that all International Civil Aviation member states are expected to have complied with the issuance of machine readable documents by 2010.
The document will be issued out next year in January, to regional, district and Botswana missions and embassies. The passport is to be machine readable and should be a secure document.
Giesecke and Devriet Company was engaged to develop the e-passport and border control system.