Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Hi everyone

Have you renewed your South African passport recently at SA embassy in London?

What was your timeline?

Many thanks

There are currently long delays for renewals.

Hi

I just want to give you feedback and yes, for sure long delays ahead as I requested the appointment for the passport renewal and after 2 weeks I got response that my appointments is booked in 3 months.
I am considering now to apply by post because the police stations restarted the fingerprints service for the foreign passports. I hope this would be the right thing to do...

If anyone has any feedback about processing times of South African passport renewal, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

I did a postal application

20/10/20 Forms received by embassy
22/04/21 Email to say passport is ready to post or collect.
23/04/21 Posted old passport to embassy
30/04/21 New passport received

Hi,

How long did it take for SA House to send you back the blank forms after you requested them? We requested the forms with a postage paid self addressed envelope 10 weeks ago and still haven't heard anything back. Also, does anyone have a number or email address to contact someone at the SA Embassy? The phone number they provide just hangs up after a while and no replies to the email address.

I haven't tried to contact them but my passport forms arrived within a week of me posting the request. A friend has just done the same and they arrived last week, 10 days after posting a request.