South Africa - Driving License Verification

curl -X POST "https://verification.didit.me/v3/database-validation/" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "issuing_state=ZAF" \
  -F "services=zaf_drivers_license" \
  -F "vendor_data=user-1234" \
  -F "national_id=SAMPLE-NID-12345" \
  -F "last_name=Doe" \
  -F "initials=JD" \
  -F "licence_number=LIC123456"

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Approved",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "full_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "identification_number": "SAMPLE-ID-12345",
        "last_name": "Doe"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "full_match",
        "identification_number": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "In Review",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "partial_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "PARTIAL_MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "identification_number": "SAMPLE-ID-12345",
        "last_name": "Doe"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "no_match",
        "identification_number": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Declined",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "no_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "NO_MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "full_name": "NO_MATCH",
        "identification_number": "NO_MATCH"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "no_match",
        "identification_number": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

POST

database-validation

curl -X POST "https://verification.didit.me/v3/database-validation/" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "issuing_state=ZAF" \
  -F "services=zaf_drivers_license" \
  -F "vendor_data=user-1234" \
  -F "national_id=SAMPLE-NID-12345" \
  -F "last_name=Doe" \
  -F "initials=JD" \
  -F "licence_number=LIC123456"

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Approved",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "full_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "identification_number": "SAMPLE-ID-12345",
        "last_name": "Doe"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "full_match",
        "identification_number": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "In Review",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "partial_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "PARTIAL_MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "identification_number": "SAMPLE-ID-12345",
        "last_name": "Doe"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "no_match",
        "identification_number": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Declined",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "no_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "NO_MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "full_name": "NO_MATCH",
        "identification_number": "NO_MATCH"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "no_match",
        "identification_number": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Verifies a South African driving license against the NATIS / Department of Transport register. Didit exposes this service through POST /v3/database-validation/ so you can verify the submitted data against the authoritative source and receive normalized match results.

Coverage

Coverage: —
Country: South Africa
Service ID: zaf_drivers_license
Data domain: Identity
Category: DriverLicence

Inputs

Field	Required	Example
`national_id`	Yes	`SAMPLE-NID-12345`
`last_name`	Yes	`Doe`
`initials`	Yes	`JD`
`licence_number`	Yes	`LIC123456`
`first_name`	No	`John`
`date_of_birth`	No	`1990-01-01`
`vendor_data`	No	`user-1234`

Required inputs: national_id, last_name, initials, licence_number
Optional inputs: first_name, date_of_birth, vendor_data
Consent: Not required
Workflow availability: Standalone API only
Coverage: —
Price: $0.70 per successful query

Body parameters

issuing_state

string

default:"ZAF"

required

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for this database service.Example: ZAF

services

string

default:"zaf_drivers_license"

required

Array containing this service ID. Pinning the service keeps the request scoped to this exact database.Example: zaf_drivers_license

national_id

string

default:"SAMPLE-NID-12345"

required

National identity number for this service.Example: SAMPLE-NID-12345

last_name

string

default:"Doe"

required

Family name to validate.Example: Doe

initials

string

default:"JD"

required

initials value required by this database service.Example: JD

licence_number

string

default:"LIC123456"

required

licence_number value required by this database service.Example: LIC123456

first_name

string

default:"John"

Given name to validate.Example: John

date_of_birth

string

default:"1990-01-01"

Date of birth in YYYY-MM-DD format.Example: 1990-01-01

vendor_data

string

default:"user-1234"

Your stable user reference for this person, such as your internal user ID. Didit uses it to link standalone checks to the same end user and reduce duplicate-detection noise.Example: user-1234

Input rules & validation notes

Send the fields listed above exactly as captured from the user or document.
Didit validates required fields before calling the database. Requests rejected before source lookup are not charged.

How to call it

curl -X POST "https://verification.didit.me/v3/database-validation/" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "issuing_state=ZAF" \
  -F "services=zaf_drivers_license" \
  -F "vendor_data=user-1234" \
  -F "national_id=SAMPLE-NID-12345" \
  -F "last_name=Doe" \
  -F "initials=JD" \
  -F "licence_number=LIC123456"

Every successful call returns HTTP 200. The outcome_code field tells you what actually happened — distinguishing, for example, a real biometric mismatch (BIOMETRIC_NO_MATCH) from a selfie that could not be read (BIOMETRIC_IMAGE_UNUSABLE). The status shown is the default feature status; your configured Partial Match / No Match actions can override it.

MATCH — The registry confirmed the identity and every checked field matched.

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Approved",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "full_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "identification_number": "SAMPLE-ID-12345",
        "last_name": "Doe"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "full_match",
        "identification_number": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

PARTIAL_MATCH — The identification number was found but one or more personal fields (usually name or date of birth) did not fully match.

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "In Review",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "partial_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "PARTIAL_MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "identification_number": "SAMPLE-ID-12345",
        "last_name": "Doe"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "no_match",
        "identification_number": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

NO_MATCH — The registry returned no match for the submitted data.

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Declined",
  "issuing_state": "ZAF",
  "match_type": "no_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "NO_MATCH",
      "service_id": "zaf_drivers_license",
      "service_name": "South Africa - Driving License Verification",
      "source_data": {
        "full_name": "NO_MATCH",
        "identification_number": "NO_MATCH"
      },
      "validation": {
        "full_name": "no_match",
        "identification_number": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Returned data

The exact fields surfaced in source_data depend on what the registry returns. The generated example for zaf_drivers_license currently documents this normalized shape:

date_of_birth
first_name
identification_number
last_name

Pricing & SLAs

South Africa - Driving License Verification queries are billed only when Didit receives a conclusive result from the validation source.

Per-call price: $0.70 USD.
Billing: per successful query. You are not charged when the registry is unreachable, when required fields are missing, or when the request is rejected before reaching the source.
Latency: typical p95 < 2 s.
Availability: 99.9% per quarter on Didit’s side; downstream source availability varies by country and dataset.

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