Consular Office Hours
The Consular section is located on the third floorConsular hours are 9:00am to 12:30am on Mondays to Fridays
Please see Embassy holidays for 2010 below
| 10 January (Monday) | Coming of Age Day | Japanese holiday |
| 11 February (Friday) | National Foundation Day | Japanese holiday |
| 22 April (Friday) | Good Friday | RSA holiday |
| 25 April (Monday) | Family Day | RSA holiday |
| 2 May (Monday) | Worker's Day (1 May falls on a Sunday) | RSA holiday |
| 3 May (Tuesday) | Constitution Day | Japanese holiday |
| 16 June (Thursday) | Youth Day | RSA holiday |
| 19 September (Monday) | Respect for the Aged Day | Japanese holiday |
| 10 October (Monday) | Health and Sport Day | Japanese holiday |
| 16 December (Friday) | Day of Reconcilliation | RSA holiday |
| 23 December (Friday) | Emperor's Birthday | Japanese holiday |
| 26 December (Monday) | Day of Goodwill | RSA holiday |
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What is ROSA?
ROSA is the acronym for the ‘Registration of South Africans Abroad’, a software programme developed by International relations and cooperation allowing travellers to register on-line.The information travellers register on ROSA allows International relations and cooperation to assist South African citizens in event of an emergency. The registration is a free, voluntary service provided by Government (through International relations and cooperation)ROSA is only available to South African citizens who are travelling, living or working abroad.
Why should I register?
Vast numbers of our people who travel abroad every day do not encounter any difficulties. However, through our missions abroad, we have assisted a growing number of South Africans who have become victims of crime, accident/s, illness, death, natural/man-made disasters, civil unrest, or whose family and/or next-of-kin needed to contact them in an emergency. Registration through this website is NOT considered proof of South African citizenship. If you apply for any service from an Embassy, High Commission or Consulate General (mission) while abroad, you will be asked by staff to provide proof of South African citizenship, such as a passport or bar coded ID book. By registering your trip on-line with ROSA you assist International relations and cooperation to locate you during an emergency, verifying your status and liaising with your next-of-kin. Registration is voluntary and free of charge. We encourage you to consider registration as an integral part of your travel planning and security.How do I register?
The ROSA software is an on-line
registration process available on the International relations and cooperation’ web-site.
Click on the button and follow the easy steps.
The ROSA software is unique. The software allows for a traveller to:
- register as an Individual Traveller
- register as Group Travellers
- register multiple destinations
- update their profiles (Individual or Group)
- and de-register their profile from the system.
How can the Embassy or Consulate assist me while I am abroad?
The Chief Directorate: Consular Services in International relations and cooperation, in close collaboration with the Consular Sections of South African Representatives abroad, provides consular services to South African citizens who work, live and travel abroad.
Consular Services operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On weekends and after
hours, assistance is rendered in co-operation with DIRCO's Operations
Room in Pretoria. The Operations Room supports our 121 Representatives in 105
countries affording services that cover the entire world.
A detailed list of services is available at:
How will my information be used?
ROSA will be utilised by Consular Officers at Head Office or at a South African Mission abroad in the event of a disaster, emergency or other crisis as outlined above.
Only authorised officers of International relations and cooperation have access to the information which will only be used in the event of an emergency. This will enable International relations and cooperation to e.g. react by contacting the next-of-kin to verify the status of the South Africans travelling abroad that might have been affected by the emergency.
Registration and Privacy
International relations and cooperation is committed to ensuring that any personal information received through the ROSA on-line registration process is safeguarded against unauthorised disclosure. DIRCO will not disclose the information you provide through the registration application to any third parties (this includes family members) unless you have first given it written authorisation to do so. In the event that family members make enquiries about your whereabouts, such requests will be forwarded to you. You may choose to inform the mission of your decision to respond or not. This internet site uses secure encryption to safeguard your privacy and therefore any unauthorised interception by third parties of the information you send via the internet is unlikely. DIRCO does not accept responsibility for any such interception.
Important Notification: The responsibility remains with the individual traveller to:
- act responsibly and be aware of the risks
- consider and purchase full travel insurance or an overseas health plan
- respect the culture and customs of the countries visited.
The consular assistance provided by DIRCO, in the case of an emergency, is usually of a non-financial nature, and DIRCO will not be responsible for payment of legal, medical, travelling expenses or any other expenses on behalf of the traveller.
It is reiterated that information on ROSA is only accessed by DIRCO during a declared consular emergency.
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Date: 04 Nov 2011
Title: Home Affairs moving headquarters
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Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs will relocate its head office from Waltloo to the city centre, a move that will result in it taking the services it offers closer to the people.
The department's Director-General Mkuseli Apleni said a lease had been negotiated for new headquarters at Hallmark in Pretoria.
"In line with government's view that government offices should be located within the city centre as part of efforts of building confidence in the city centre while encouraging economic investment into the city, the Department of Home Affairs headquarters will soon be relocated from Waltloo to Hallmark in the city centre," he said.
Relocating the offices would result in services being taken to the doorstep of the people, especially those who work in the city centre, Apleni noted.
Plans for the move, which will take place in phases, had been finalised and will begin on 17 November. The process is expected to be completed by 22 December 2011.
Apleni also announced that the online fingerprint verification system - a joint project by the department and the South African Banking Risk Centre - would be launched next week.
"The objective of the project is to protect the identity of South African citizens while creating a platform in which both the Home Affairs Department and the banks can jointly help in the national effort of pushing back the frontiers of fraud and corruption," he explained, without giving away too many details. Bua News
Date: 08 Nov 2011
Title: Home Affairs, SABRIC partner to combat fraud
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Pretoria - The newly-launched Online Fingerprint Verification System is expected to deal a significant blow to acts of fraud and corruption that have cheated banks out of millions of Rands, says Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Speaking at the launch of the system in Pretoria on Tuesday, the minister was confident that the country's "first ever and historic Online Fingerprint Verification System" would prove to be a giant step for all South Africans.
"The launch of the Online Fingerprint Verification System...will lay a basis for us jointly to deal a massive and decisive blow against acts of fraud and corruption that have cost our financial and banking institutions millions, if not billions, of Rands. The Online Fingerprint Verification System is indeed a simple but sophisticated [tool] against fraud and corruption," she added.
The system is a joint initiative between the department and the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC).
In terms of the initiative, the department will allow banks access to the Home Affairs National Identification System to verify the identity of prospective and current clients using their fingerprints.
Five banks - ABSA, African Bank, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank - are currently participating in the initiative, with the system at different phases of implementation with each bank.
Dlamini Zuma thanked SABRIC for the support and confidence it had shown in her department by partnering with it.
"We equally, as government, through this partnership, express our confidence in the South African banking system which has weathered the storms of various stages of our economic development including, the recent global recession," she said.
The launch also laid the foundation for a more strategic partnership between the department and the banking sector, the minister noted.
"In launching the Online Fingerprint Verification System, Home Affairs and SABRIC indeed contribute to a positive climate in which our citizenry are and feel safe in the knowledge that their savings, investments, deposits and hard-won earnings are indeed secure in the hands of the various banking institutions," she added.
SABRIC described the initiative as an important measure in helping banks prevent identity theft related crimes that banks and its customers become victims of.
SABRIC CEO Kalyani Pillay said: "The banks are very grateful to the Department of Home Affairs for allowing them this unique opportunity to maximise the benefits of technological innovations in the interests of their clients.
"Banks clients will benefit immensely from this initiative as it offers the banks a second layer of confirmation that the persons presenting identity documents are indeed who they purport to be." - BuaNews
