Welcome to the South African Identity Federation (SAFIRE).

We’re currently undertaking a complete website refresh, so parts of this site are likely to be incomplete. The look-and-feel is also set to change, so please bear with us :-).

The old website is still available for the time being.

Latest News

Website update, September 2016 (9/14/2016) - We've been talking about a new web site for some time, and had hoped to relaunch a new, complete site with a fresh look and feel once we'd managed to get …
Metadata refresh during transition (9/14/2016) - SAFIRE is currently transitioning from a full-mesh federation to a hub-and-spoke federation. As we change architectures, we will be asking all participants to re-submit their metadata. The current metadata has …
Danish WAYF helps South African NREN develop federated identity solution (6/24/2016) - The Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation (DeiC) published an article about our collaboration with WAYF, the Danish identity federation. The article is available on the DeiC website at https://www.deic.dk/node/682?language=en.