IF your matric certificate is lost or damaged, or if you want to combine your results, you can visit your nearest Department of Education District Office to obtain a replacement matric certificate or combine your results.
Here’s everything you need to know:
Lost or damaged matric certificate;
If your matric certification is lost or damaged, visit your nearest District Office with the following
documents:
– The original Identity Document (ID) and a certified copy,
– An affidavit stating what happened to your certificate (i.e. stating if your certificate is lost or damaged),
– If it is damaged, bring the original certificate (this is not applicable if it is lost).
Pay the prescribed fee of R153 cash at the District Office.
You may request for the statement of results for a fee of R55 cash at the District Office while waiting for the issue of your replacement certificate.
It takes between four to six weeks for a replacement certificate to be issued (for records on the system).
Statement of results can be obtained immediately.
For records not on the system, it will take longer as records need to be retrieved from the archives and loaded onto the system.
Replacement certificate: change of status or combination of results;
If you wrote your matric in more than one examination sitting and you want to combine your results to qualify for a National Certificate, i.e. Senior Certificate (SC) or National Senior Certificate (NSC), you must apply for Replacement Certificate: change of status.
The department of education does not automatically combine your credits, unless you wrote a supplementary examination.
Visit your nearest District Office with the following documents:
– Your results from all examination sittings,
-The original Identity Document (ID) and a certified copy,
– Pay the prescribed fee of R153 cash at the District Office.
You may request for the statement of results for a fee of R55 cash at the District Office while waiting for the issue of your replacement certificate: change of status.
It takes four to six weeks for a replacement certificate: change of status. The combination statement of results is obtainable immediately.
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