All educators working in South African schools, public and independent, in the GET or FET bands, must be registered with SACE (the South African Council of Educators). It is illegal for any teacher to work without SACE registration.

SACE currently has four processes of registration for individual educators:

• Full registration for those with matric + 3 (NQF level 4) also known as RQV 13;
• Provisional registration for educators that have academic qualifications but who have not as yet acquired a professional qualification.
• Conditional registration for scarce skills where schools are unable to find suitably qualified educators.
• Pre-Accredited Member (PAM) status where educators submit insufficient information to enable SACE to register them appropriately.

Please visit the SACE website for more information about their registration process.