Welcome to the South African Identity Federation (SAFIRE) — the national academic identity federation for the South African research and higher education community.
Latest News
Support for REFEDS MFA
(2022-01-04)
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On the evening of Tuesday 11 January, we will deploy a number of changes to the SAFIRE Federation hub to allow for the bi-directional signalling of REFEDS MFA. No downtime is expected, and we do not anticipate any impact on any service- or identity-provider that does not currently support such signalling.
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UNIVEN joins SAFIRE
(2021-10-05)
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The University of Venda have signed the Participation Agreement and completed the technical integration. UNIVEN are now a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome UNIVEN!
SPU joins SAFIRE
(2021-06-10)
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Sol Plaatje University have signed the Participation Agreement, as well as completed the technical integration and are now a fully functioning identity provider in SAFIRE. Welcome SPU!
SAFIRE baseline changes
(2021-03-31)
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Following a period of consultation and starting from 31 March 2021, we’ve made several changes to SAFIRE’s idp- & sp-requirements and to the minimum attributes required for participation.
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