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Our popular free C# source code South African ID validator is still available for download. Other developers have converted our code to VB.Net, you'll need to search online for their examples.
A brief description of Indentity numbers from: About.com : African History
The South African Identity Number was 13 digits long. The first six digits gave the birth date of the holder (year, month, and date). The next four digits acted as a serial number to distinguish people born on the same day, and to differentiate between the sexes: digits 0000 to 4999 were for females, 5000 to 9999 for males. The eleventh digit indicated whether the holder was a SA citizen (0) or not (1) - the latter for foreigners who had rights of residency. The penultimate digit recorded race, according to the above list - from Whites (0) to Other Coloured (7). The final digit of the ID number was an arithmetical control (like the last digit on ISBN numbers).
The racial criteria for identity numbers was removed by the 1986 Identification Act (which also repealed the 1952 Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act, otherwise known as the Pass Law) whilst the 1986 Restoration of South African Citizenship Act returned citizenship rights to its Black population.
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