SARS has a new toy. Now, if you want to register a company for VAT or PAYE, you have to undergo a biometric examination. This means that you have to have a videocam on your computer. It then requres you to allow it to photograph your face.

It first tells you to remove your glasses. Then to follow the written instructions. That’s a bit tricky for those of us who to need to wear glasses to read the screen!

Then it takes a full face shot, before telling you to look left and down, then right and down and I forget in what other directions.

What they do with this, goodness only knows, but I guess they’re having fun!