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Chief Directorate: Consular Services

Chief Director / Consular Incident Command Centre / Director: Development, Strategy and Legalisation / Deputy Director: Development, Strategy and Legalisation / Director: Consular Services / Deputy Director: Consular Services: Africa / Deputy Director: Consular Services: Asia and Middle East / Deputy Director: Consular Services: Americas and Europe /

Fax number (Consular) : (012) 329 1752
Fax number (Legalisation) : (012) 329 1752

E-mail: consular@dirco.gov.za (Consular enquiries)
E-mail: legalisation@dirco.gov.za (Legalisation enquiries i.e. authentications and apostilles)

Physical Address

NE2A-Ground Floor
460 Soutpansberg Road
Rietondale
Pretoria


In case of an after-hours emergency, kindly contact the Department's Opsroom at: (012) 351 1000.



CHIEF DIRECTORATE CONSULAR SERVICES

NameRankContact details
Vacant Chief Director(012) 351 1900
Vacant Senior Secretary(012) 351 1901
Ms AM Marumo (Rungi) ASD: PA (012) 351 0682

DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR DEVELOPMENT, STRATEGY AND LEGALISATION AND TRAINING

Fax: (012) 329 1752 (Mark for Attention: Relevant Official)
Enquiries: consular@dirco.gov.za

Name Rank Contact details
Mr V Mditshwa (Victor, Chief) Director (012) 351 1250
Ms L Vermaak (Liana) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 1848

SUB-DIRECTORATE: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND LEGALISATION

Name Rank Contact details
Ms L Coetser (Linda) Deputy Director (012) 351 0550
Mr D Geldenhuys (Diederik) Assistant Director (012) 351 1249
Ms CS Boyiatjis (Chantel) Assistant Director (012) 351 1753

SECTION: CONSULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CSM)

Name Rank Contact details
Ms I Steyn (Ilze) Assistant Director (012) 351 1385

SECTION: CONSULAR SERVICES - TRAINING (SECONDED FROM FSI)

Name Rank Contact details
Ms NM Rapetswa (Nkateko) Assistant Director (012) 351 0611

SECTION: LEGALISATION

For any legalisation enquiries i.e. authentications and apostilles, kindly contact the Enquiry Office at:

Tel: (012) 351 1726
Fax: (012) 329 1018 (Mark for Attention: Relevant Official)
Enquiries: legalisation@dirco.gov.za

Name Rank Contact details
Ms M Aspeling (Michelle) Assistant Director (012) 351 1232
Ms PJ Ehlers (Penny) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 1269
Ms LS Sekhasimbe (Lucia) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 1490
Ms P S Argyrou (Bongi) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 1231
Ms KC Sambo (Keledi) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Clerk (012) 351 0595
Mr TT Sandi (Tozie) Chief Admin Clerk (012) 351 1268

DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR SERVICES (Geographical Desks)

Name Rank Contact details
Mr MS Bungane (Mbulelo) Director (012) 351 1530
Ms M Krugel (Maria) Senior Secretary (012) 351 0293

CONSULAR INCIDENT COMMAND CENTRE (CICC) - CONSULAR OPERATIONS ROOM

Name Rank Contact details
Mr NM Mlanga Assistant Director (012) 351 1320
Ms P Naicker (Roshinee) Senior Secretary (012) 351 0924

SUB-DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR SERVICES: AFRICA

Name Rank Contact details
Mr S Makwela (Stephens) Deputy Director (012) 351 1544

CONSULAR SECTION: AFRICA I
Algeria, Angola, Djibouti, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Seychelles Burundi, Congo (Brazzaville), Eritrea, Lesotho, Mauritania, Namibia, Somalia, Tunisia, Zimbabwe

Name Rank Contact details
Ms H M van Heerden (Rinie) Assistant Director (012) 351 1262

CONSULAR SECTION: AFRICA II
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gambia (Senegal), Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal, Sudan, Swaziland

Name Rank Contact details
Ms G P Coetzee (Ida) Assistant Director (012) 351 1308

Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Comores, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Tanzania

Name Rank Contact details
Mr B T Masia (Masia) Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 0160

CONSULAR SECTION: AFRICA III
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone (Cote d’ Ivoire), Togo, Uganda, Zambia

Name Rank Contact details
Ms A Januarie (Althea) Assistant Director (012) 351 1253

SUB-DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR SERVICES: ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Name Rank Contact details
Mr B Malan (Ben) Deputy Director (012) 351 1270

CONSULAR SECTION: SOUTH & EAST ASIA, AUSTRALASIA & PACIFIC
New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, People’s Republic of China, South Korea (Republic), North Korea (People’s Republic), Singapore, South Korea (Seoul) Taiwan.  (Temporary allocation: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan)

Name Rank Contact details
Mr KS Mothoa (Karabo) Assistant Director (012) 351 0067

Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pacific Islands (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu), Thailand, Vietnam. (Temporary allocation: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Turkmenistan)

Name Rank Contact details
Mr LM Malete (Mpho) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 0287


CONSULAR SECTION: CENTRAL ASIA, MIDDLE EAST & SUB-CONTINENT
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. (Temporary allocation: India, Maldives, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)

Name Rank Contact details
Mr KS Mothoa (Karabo) Assistant Director (Acting) (012) 351 0067
Ms A Mokoka (Anna) Senior Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 301 8768
Ms M Demas (Maggie) Foreign Affairs Admin Office (012) 351 0823

SUB-DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR SERVICES: AMERICAS AND EUROPE

Name Rank Contact details
Mr A Brown (Alfred) Deputy Director (012) 351 1252

CONSULAR SECTION: UK, IRELAND, BENELUX COUNTRIES, NORDIC AND GERMAN SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (Temporary responsibility: Albania, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marina and Vatican)

Name Rank Contact details
Ms K van der Vyver (Karien) Assistant Director (012) 351 1294

CONSULAR SECTION: MEDITERANEAN EUROPE, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Spain, Poland, Ukraine

Name Rank Contact details
Ms D Malotana (Demtaro) Assistant Director

(012) 351 0064

Ms J Sambo (Julia) Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 1969

CONSULAR SECTION: USA & CANADA

Name Rank Contact details
Ms D Ham (Dagmar) Assistant Director (012) 351 1251

CONSULAR SECTION: LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

CENTRAL AMERICA & THE ANDES
Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela

CARIBBEAN
Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago

MERCOSUR COUNTRIES
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Temporary resonsibility: Azerbaija and Turkey

Name Rank Contact details
Ms E Groenewald (Elzanne) Assistant Director (012) 351 1263
Mr M Makhetla (Motsamai) Foreign Affairs Admin Officer (012) 351 1579


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Last updated: 03 October 2012
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