The South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) challenges you to check if you are ALIVE!  The purpose of the service is to assist South Africans to check their status to ensure that they have not been fraudulently declared dead on the population register.

* To use the website, people should visit http://www.dha.gov.za and click on check your status and choose ID status verification (alive/deceased).

* Using the SMS service, clients can type in the letter L, followed by the ID number to 32551.

I dare you to check your status!

• Benoni