When you reside in South Africa and know that your spouse lives outside South Africa, whether you know exactly where they are or not, you must bring an application for edictal citation, if you want to proceed with your divorce.  With this application, you must ask the Court for permission to serve the divorce summons in a specific way instead of personal service. Therefore, the Court needs to be satisfied that service will be done correctly by an official of the Court in a foreign country or in another manner to ensure a real prospect that service will bring the divorce summons under the spouse, residing overseas’, attention.

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