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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) 323 4372
Fax number (Legalisation) : (012) 323 4372

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

Physical Address

Legalisation Section 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
Mr D Naidoo (Dayanand) Chief Director(012) 351 1900
Ms B Masokoameng (Beatrice)Senior Secretary(012) 351 1901
Ms A Oosthuizen (Annelize) ASD: PA (012) 351 1542

CONSULAR INCIDENT COMMAND CENTRE (CICC)

NameRankContact details
Mr B T Masia (Masia) FAAO (012) 351 0160


DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, LEGALISATION

Name Rank Contact details
Mr A J Laubscher (Albie) Director (012) 351 1250
Ms I Steyn (Ilze) Senior Administrative Support Officer (012) 351 1385


SUB-DIRECTORATE: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND LEGALISATION

Name Rank Contact details
Mr Y R Reddi (Yugen) Deputy Director (012) 351 1517
Mr A Themba (Aaron) Assistant Director (012) 351 1378
Ms M Aspeling (Michelle) Assistant Director (012) 351 1636
Mr C G Strydom (Nelis) Assistant Director (012) 351 1671


SECTION: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, RESTRUCTURING, ESTABLISHMENT, DEVELOPMENT OF CONSULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Name Rank Contact details
Ms B Maharaj (Betty) Assistant Director (012) 351 1273

SECTION: LEGALISATION

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

E-mail: legislation@foreign.gov.za

Name Rank Contact details
Ms M du Plessis (Michêlle) Assistant Director (012) 351 1232
Ms P S Mchunu (Bongi) SFAAO (012) 351 1231
Ms K Maja (Kholofelo) Chief Admin Clerk (012) 351 1269
Ms G Makapela (Gcobisa) Chief Admin Clerk (012) 351 1268
Ms D Nkgage (Dorah) Admin Officer (012) 351 0033
Ms L Sekhasimbe (Lucia) Chief Admin Clerk (012) 351 1490

DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR SERVICES

Name Rank Contact details
Mr D Naidoo (Dayanand) Acting Director (012) 351 1900
Vacant Senior Administrative Support Officer  

SUB-DIRECTORATE: CONSULAR SERVICES: AFRICA

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

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

Name Rank Contact details
Mr D Geldenhuys (Diederik) Assistant Director (012) 351 1249


CONSULAR SECTION: AFRICA II
Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Senegal, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania

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

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

Name Rank Contact details
Vacant    

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
Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, People's Republic of China, Pacific Islands (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu), South Korea (Republic), North Korea (People's Republic), Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam

Name Rank Contact details
Ms H M van Heerden (Rinie) Assistant Director (012) 351 1262
Ms N Z Zulu (Nomfundo) FAAO (012) 351 1402

CONSULAR SECTION: CENTRAL ASIA, MIDDLE EAST & SUB-CONTINENT
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Name Rank Contact details
Mr J Madiga (Johannes) Assistant Director (012) 351 1253
Ms P Chhiba (Pratiksha) FSO (012) 351 1590

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
Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland

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

CONSULAR SECTION: MEDITERANEAN EUROPE, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Malta, Monaco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia & Montenegro, San Marino, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican

Name Rank Contact details
Mr D Ham (Dagmar) Assistant Director (012) 351 1251
Ms J Sambo (Julia) FAAO (012) 351 1969

CONSULAR SECTION: USA & CANADA

Name Rank Contact details
Ms N R Gonya (Rosemary) Assistant Director (012) 351 1265

CONSULAR SECTION: LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

CENTRAL AMERICA & THE ANDES
Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Equador, 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

Name Rank Contact details
Ms E Groenewald (Elzanne) Assistant Director (012) 351 1263
Ms B Veltman (Brigette) FAAO (012) 351 1023


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