We monitor your entire debtor book against the Government Gazette and flag the accounts that change — so you stop chasing dead accounts and never miss an estate claim.
The Government Gazette publishes new notices every week. Sequestration orders, deceased estate notices, administration orders, business rescue filings — any of these can hit a debtor in your book on any given Wednesday. The cost lands in two places.
When a debtor is sequestrated, placed under administration, or deceased, continuing normal collection activity creates legal exposure under the NCA, the Insolvency Act, and POPIA. Every call, letter, and SMS sent to a non-collectible account is direct cost with zero return.
The accounts to pull from your active queue — the day you find out, not six months later.
When a debtor dies, the debt doesn't disappear — it becomes a claim against the estate. Miss the Master's deadline set in the gazette notice and the claim lapses. The same applies to sequestration: miss the trustee's process, and your unsecured claim gets nothing.
The accounts to move immediately to your estate claims process — with the executor's details already in hand.
The same notice. Two different decisions. The only variable is whether you saw it.
Every capability designed for portfolio-level screening and continuous monitoring.
Upload a CSV of SA ID and company registration numbers. Every identifier is checked against our full database — over 1 million gazette notices, including 853,000+ estate notices. You get a structured results file with notice details, estate numbers, executor details where gazetted, and case numbers — everything needed to act immediately.
Add your debtor IDs once. Gazette Search monitors every new gazette issue and alerts you when a new notice matches an account in your book. The alerts come to you; no manual re-screening required.
Note: watchlist alerts consume one credit per alert fired.
Each alert includes publication date, notice reference, executor or trustee contact where gazetted, and a link to the gazette record.
Deceased estate notices set a creditor lodgement deadline — typically 30 days from publication. Gazette Search flags the notice as soon as that gazette is processed, with executor details where gazetted, estate number, and date of death. The window is short. Acting early in the processing cycle keeps you inside it.
Every bulk screen and alert is logged with a timestamp and the triggering notice details. If a regulatory query asks whether you continued collection after a sequestration order, your Gazette Search log is the answer: date notified, notice details, export timestamp. A documented compliance step, not a verbal claim.
Exports are structured CSV, ready to import into your collections management system.
Programmatic access to single-ID lookups, name searches, and bulk endpoint queries. Screen new accounts at intake; query existing accounts on a schedule. Available as a monthly add-on (R1,000/month) to any qualifying pack.
Send a CSV of SA ID numbers and company registration numbers. Bulk uploads of 1,000+ IDs require one-time business verification — done once, applies to all future uploads.
Your book sits in your watchlist. As each new gazette issue is processed, any notice matching an ID is flagged automatically. No re-uploading. No manual scanning.
Each alert contains the account identifier, notice type, publication date, and extracted notice details. Two queues: accounts to suspend from active collection, and accounts to move to your estate claims process.
Send us a sample of your debtor IDs (typically 1,000–5,000). We screen them against our full database (over 1 million gazette notices, including 853,000+ estate notices) and return a report within one business day showing:
No obligation to proceed.
A one-page data processing summary is available for your information officer on request.
Date-stamped record of when you knew about a status change — the foundation of a defensible compliance position. We don't give legal advice; we give you the facts and the paper trail.
Bulk uploads of 1,000+ IDs require one-time business verification including your POPIA lawful basis. Every firm using Gazette Search at volume has that documented.
Sourced from the Government Printing Works and the OpenGazettes public archive. Coverage is extensive, not total — a known extraction gap exists in some gazette issues where PDFs were scanned rather than digitally published. We don't claim 100% coverage. We do claim the most comprehensive searchable index available for this notice type in South Africa.
New gazette issues are ingested on a regular processing cycle. Notice of a status change reaches your watchlist alerts within that cycle.
Every search, upload, and alert is logged with a timestamp. Exports are timestamped. Regulators, courts, and internal audits can all be answered from your account log.
Hosted on Render's Frankfurt infrastructure. Your account data is held under your control — not sold, shared, or processed for any other purpose.
Pricing reflects the size of your monitored book and the volume of searches and alerts your operation generates.
Per-search rates from R20 for a one-off lookup down to R0.55 per search at volume
Custom enterprise rates (from R250,000) for organisations monitoring 500,000+ identifiers.
Add-ons on any qualifying pack:
API access (R1,000/month) · Extra seats (R250/seat/month) · Priority support (R2,000/month)
There is no public price table for enterprise accounts — book size, monitoring frequency, API usage, and contract term all affect the right structure.
Contact Sales / Book a DemoThe free scan takes one business day and costs nothing. If the results show meaningful exposure — and for most books of any size, they do — you'll have the data to make the business case for continuous monitoring.
Prefer to speak to someone first? Email enterprise@gazette-search.com — we'll come back to you within one business day.