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🇿🇦 South Africa

🇿🇦 South Africa

Operations

SAID

Request

Verify the identity of an individual in South Africa using only their 13-digit South African ID number (SAID). The service queries official records and returns the core identity profile tied to that number – first name, last name, date of birth, gender, citizenship status, and whether the person is recorded as deceased – giving you a fast, reliable way to confirm who someone is

Security
API-Key
Bodyapplication/json
said_numberstring, = 13 charactersrequired

South African 13-digit national identity number in the format YYMMDDSSSSCAZ: YYMMDD is the date of birth, SSSS is a gender code (0000-4999 female, 5000-9999 male), C is the citizenship indicator (0 citizen, 1 permanent resident), A is a historical digit, and Z is a Luhn checksum digit.

Example:"8001015009031"
{
  "said_number": "8001015009031"
}

Responses

OK

The request was successful, and our system returned an expected response.

Bodyapplication/json
dataobject
Response
{
  "data": {
    "first_name": "Josh",
    "last_name": "Coffey",
    "dob": "1976-02-21",
    "gender": "M",
    "is_citizen": true,
    "is_deceased": false
  }
}