{"id":109,"date":"2024-01-15T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/uk\/consular-services-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:48:08","slug":"consular-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/bangui\/consular-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Consular Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"109\" class=\"elementor elementor-109\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1df1b0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d1df1b0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23ff596 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"23ff596\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6af6c1d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6af6c1d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Consular services comprise of two areas of specialisation, namely:<\/p><ul><li>Consular assistance rendered to South African nationals abroad, including emergency consular assistance.<\/li><li>Consular Notarial Services (Legalisation Services).<\/li><li>Consular assistance is rendered to South African nationals travelling, working, studying and\/or living abroad.<\/li><\/ul><p>After-hours services are only rendered in the event of an emergency and exclude any enquiries of a general nature. Emergency consular services can be described as services rendered to South African nationals who are distressed, destitute, seriously injured, and assistance rendered to the next-of-kin in case of death or involved in natural\/man-made disasters.<\/p><p>Consular Notarial Services (Legalisation Services) are rendered to South African nationals and foreign nationals requiring South African official public documents to be legalised for use abroad. These services are rendered to provide legal validity to South African official public documents to enable a person to use the documents outside South Africa.<\/p><p>Service Hours: 08:30 \u2013 12:30 (Monday \u2013 Friday, excluding public holidays).<\/p><p>Telephone enquiries are dealt with during public hours (08:30 \u2013 12:30).<\/p><p>Enquiries: <a title=\"mailto:DofloA@dirco.gov.za\" href=\"mailto:DofloA@dirco.gov.za\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">DofloA@dirco.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3750b2e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3750b2e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c3f732 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"6c3f732\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"499\" class=\"elementor elementor-499\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53649f3c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"53649f3c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88208a7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"88208a7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e758e10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3e758e10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">News and Notices<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consular Services Consular services comprise of two areas of specialisation, namely: Consular assistance rendered to South African nationals abroad, including emergency consular assistance. Consular Notarial Services (Legalisation Services). Consular assistance is rendered to South African nationals travelling, working, studying and\/or living abroad. After-hours services are only rendered in the event of an emergency and exclude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Brian","author_link":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/bangui\/author\/jollyapples\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"Consular Services Consular services comprise of two areas of specialisation, namely: Consular assistance rendered to South African nationals abroad, including emergency consular assistance. Consular Notarial Services (Legalisation Services). 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