Dear sir
I am a Sourh African citizen and a married a Namibian man in South Africa at the Praktiseer office in Limpopo.
The officer who typed in our I.D. numbers and date of birth on the marriage certificate made a mistake and placed my date of birth under my husband's name.
We asked them to rectify this and they assured us they will email Pretoria head office to have this rectified. I had to travel wirh a hand written certificate which is not acknowledged in Namibia, by our banks etc.
I sent numerous emails as well as the incorrectly printed documents but home affairs state we have to come to Pretoria Head office personally. It's costs in a region of R20 000.00 per trip, can not do this 3 to 4 times per year as there is always a problem at the home affairs an we cannot stay over for 2 weeks at a time.
Please contact me via email in this regard.
I must also state that so many SouthAfricans currently in Namibia have similar issues, whereby marriages are not registered etc.
The South African embassy just shrugs their shoulders and states, go back to South Africa and have it amended there.

Can you please help as I also need to get my South African married surname passport and I.D. document but it can't happen as I don't even have a proper marriage certificate. Why do these home affairs officers make so many mistakes and it costs citizens like me to date R40000.00 to get this corrected.
Kind regards. Marisa De Wet