Eastern Cape Education
Lost Certificate: Applying for re-issue

Description
You are issued a matriculation (matric) certificate when you pass Grade 12. A matric certificate may be re-issued to people whose matric certificates have been lost, stolen or damaged or to people who have changed their surnames.

Steps to follow
  • Apply in person at Assessment and Examinations Office in King William’s Town.
  • Bring originally certified copy of your Identity Document (ID)/Birth Certificate.  You must also bring a R48 for Postal Order and a R15 for the confirmation statement made out to the ECDoE has to accompany the application form.
  • Provide details of where and when you wrote your examination, including the following:
    • Year
    • District
    • School or examination centre
    • Your examination number

Legal framework
South African Schools Act, 1996 (Act 84 of 1996)

Service standard
It may take 8 to 10 weeks.

Forms to complete
Application forms are obtainable from Assessment and Examinations Office in King William’s Town.

SWITCHBOARD:
  043-604 7700

Current Certificate Records 
Tel: 043-604 7808/7724
Fax: 043-604 7800
E-mail: thobeka.dumbisa@edu.ecprov.gov.za OR mfundo.thati@edu.ecprov.gov.za

Old Certificate Records
Tel: 043-604 7731
Fax: 043-604 7800
E-mail:  jabulani.bala@edu.ecprov.gov.za

Physical Address
Old Bundy Park Building
Schornville
KING WILLIAM'S TOWN

Postal Address
Private Bag X 4571
King William's Town
5600

Download Application form
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Postal Address
The Eastern Cape Department of Education
Private Bag X0032
Bhisho, Eastern Cape, RSA, 5605

Physical Address
Steve Vukile Tshwete Education Complex
Zone 6, Zwelitsha
Province of the Eastern Cape, RSA

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