South Africa Links SIM Cards to National ID in Real-Time Biometric Overhaul

South Africa has overhauled its SIM card registration laws, requiring real-time biometric verification against the national population register, effectively making a phone number a government-recognised digital identity. This is part of a sweeping global movement toward unified digital ID systems that link individuals to a single, trackable identifier — a development with profound prophetic implications for the coming mark-of-the-beast system. Revelation 13:17 warns of a future world order where no one can buy or sell without a sanctioned identity mark, and today's digital ID infrastructure is laying the technical and legislative foundation for exactly that control.