Government services online
Government services are coming to your keyboard! Need to renew your passport, get a credit card driver's licence, apply for a social grant, get help with your tax return, register to vote? Our directory of links will get you going in the right direction.
- Personal, citizenship, ID, travel documents
- Credit card driver's licences
- Social grants
- Occupational injuries or diseases
- Tax
- Voting in elections
Personal, citizenship, ID, travel
documents
Comprehensive information, and downloadable forms, are on the following Department of Home Affairs web pages:
- At some point you'll also need to visit your nearest Department of Home Affairs office.
- General - citizenship, identity, travel documents, birth, adoption, marriage, death, personal amendments.
- SA citizenship - how it is acquired, lost, retained, resumed or renounced.
- Acquiring an identity document (ID):
- Acquiring/replacing a passport or equivalent travel document:
- Acquiring a birth certificate
- Acquiring a marriage certificate - procedures, registration, forms, prohibited marriages, marriages to minors.
- Obtaining a death certificate
- Changing your personal information (name, gender, re-registration of children born out of wedlock) in the National Population Register.
- Adoptions - recording an adoption, or changing your adopted child's surname.
- Who to contact, where to go, frequently asked questions, SA drivers overseas - Department of Transport web page
- Free eye screening for your driver's licence. Everyone renewing their driver's licence must have their eyes screened. Instead of waiting in long queues, you can have your screening conducted free of charge by an optometrist. You'll receive an official certificate stating that you have had your vision screened by an optometrist. The certificate indicates the condition of your vision and will be accepted by the licensing departments.
How do I apply for a social grant?
Pensions, child support grants, disability grants, old age grants, war veteran's grants:
- You and social grants
- Department of Social Development web site
- E-mail the Department of Social Development
- Online questions and comments form
Occupational injuries or diseases - how do I apply for compensation?
- Report accidents and submit documents to the Compensation Fund electronically.
- Income tax. Tax forms, tables and guidelines downloadable in Adobe PDF format, as well as a number of useful tax guides - SA Revenue Service web site (click on "income tax" in left-hand menu bar)
- Tax online. The SA Revenue Service's e-Filing initiative allows for the electronic submission of returns, and electronic payments, for the following mainly corporate taxes: VAT, PAYE, Skills Development Levies, Provisional Income Tax, UIF, and Diesel Refunds. E-Filing of personal income tax is not yet on offer. E-Filing is facilitated through selected private third-party service providers. These outside companies charge a fee, determined by the industry and not by Sars, for their services.
- Am I registered to vote? And if so, where? - enter your ID number and click to find out
- Frequently asked questions (who can register to vote, how and where to register, whether or not to re-register, etc)
- Political parties:
- Parties registered with the Independent Electoral Commission (telephone and fax numbers and postal addresses)
- Political parties and related information (Adobe PDF format)
- Quick list of web sites of the main political parties
- Contact the Independent Electoral Commission
