Higher Education Institutions of South Africa must submit copies of the Institution's Certificate of Registration, Articles of Association, Constitution or other documentation of the Organisation's status and/or purpose.

Personal registrations are not allowed for this. It can ONLY be registered by companies and legal institutions.

The minimum term for .ac.za domain names is 1 year

The domain registration time frame for .ac.za during general availability is 1 Week.

Domain Names must:

• have minimum of 3 and a maximum of 63 characters;
• begin with a letter or a number and end with a letter or a number;
• use the English character set and may contain letters (i.e., a-z, A-Z),numbers (i.e. 0-9) and dashes (-) or a combination of these;
• neither begin with, nor end with a dash;
• not contain a dash in the third and fourth positions (e.g. www.ab- -cd.ac.za); and
• not include a space (e.g. www.ab cd.ac.za).

You may visit them here: ZADNA.