Core Components
In progress - These common components are under active development. For unavailable components, DSU will specify interim approaches that maintain standards.
A standardised “workbench” environment to support safe, consistent, and collaborative delivery across distributed teams.
Forms
- A common forms framework for accessible, reusable, and schema-driven data capture across departments, ensuring consistency and integration with back-end systems.
Notify
- The DSU Notify component enables verified multi-channel messaging (SMS, WhatsApp, email, push notifications) through a single API, ensuring auditability, consent management, and inclusion.
Data Exchange
- The national data exchange platform (MzansiXchange) providing real-time, API-first data sharing between departments and agencies, using DSU's open schemas, consent management, and access auditing.
Identity & Authentication
- A federated digital identity and trust framework providing secure login (SSO), user verification, and credential issuance including national Digital ID, Trust Framework, and Verified Credentials ecosystem.
Payments
- The Payments Orchestration Layer and Beneficiary Preference Mapper enable flexible, auditable government-to-person (G2P) and government-to-business (G2B) payments, integrated with Digital ID and data exchange systems.
Case Management
- Shared APIs and services for tracking cases, applications, and service interactions consistently across departments, including appointment scheduling functionality.
Content Management
- The GOV.ZA headless CMS provides a unified content platform for all departmental websites and citizen-facing information services, built on the DSU design system and accessible via MyMzansi.
Channels
- All citizen-facing services will be delivered through the MyMzansi universal service channel (web, mobile, and API gateways), ensuring a single, secure, and consistent front door for digital government services.
Using core components
Getting started
Access to the DSU environment will be granted upon project registration and adherence to security and confidentiality agreements.
Staying current
DSU’s standards, tools, and environments are living systems that will evolve as technology and policy advance. Private-sector partners are required to adopt updated versions within reasonable transition periods to maintain alignment with DSU’s interoperability, security, and design frameworks.
