Document Legalisation Info & Articles

When delivering to overseas clients, we use DHL Courier, a reliable international courier well known for its swift and safe deliveries. Our experience gives us confidence that DHL carrier will ensure quick delivery of your document/s within three (3) to five (5) working days calculated from the day the parcel is collected from our office by its representative.

Embassy or Consulate legalisation is a complex, difficult and sometimes expensive legal process. Each Embassy or Consulate has its peculiar opening hours, rules, procedures, guidelines, and fees payable, all of which you must deal with to legalise your South-African document for use in their country. It is a tricky and sometimes costly exercise to conduct on your own.

Personal delivery or drop off your original documents for legalisation to our office. No appointment is necessary. Our notary is in attendance from most days from 8.00 am to 16h00 am Monday to Friday if assistance is needed, otherwise our friendly Receptionists are available to take delivery.

We specialise in obtaining Apostille Certificates for all original South-African public, company, commercial and educational documents. Apostille is a French word (pronounced “ah-poh-steel”),

The Apostille of the Hague is a stamp that proves that a document obtained in a country is true and, therefore, must be recognized and accepted as valid in another. The apostille process consists of placing on an official document, or an extension thereof, an Apostille or annotation that will certify the authenticity of the signature of the public documents issued in a signatory country of the XII Hague Convention

An Apostille is an bound page that is attached to your original document (e.g. birth certificate) stating that the person issuing and/or signing the document is legitimate, as well as the stamp thereupon. The Apostille page is attached by a ribbon, verifying the signature on the document and/or the stamp affixed thereto.

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Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (1961 Apostille Convention) entered into force for Saudi Arabia following the deposit of its instrument of accession on 8 April 2022. The 1961 Apostille Convention currently has 124 Contracting Parties. More information on this Convention is available on the Apostille Section of the HCCH website. Saudi Arabia has been a Member of the HCCH since 2016 and the 1,961 Apostille Convention is the first HCCH Convention or instrument it has joined.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) is responsible for apostilling documents in South Africa, as it is the designated Competent Authority under the Hague Convention. The Convention simplifies the authentication process for public documents used in foreign countries, providing a special certificate called the Apostille,