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South Africa license plate: Zulu royal ZK

Issued today Documented since 2000. Government plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Department of Transport (national) and the MEC responsible for road traffic in each of the nine provinces. One of 20 South Africa license plates.

South Africa license plate, Zulu royal ZK (documented since 2000), sample ZK 525
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Format, years and the law

Format
ZK 999, for example ZK 525 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2000; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg 27(5)(c) as substituted by GNR.865 of 2007: 'set aside for the use by the King of the Zulu Nation, shall consist of the letters ZK followed by figures or letters or combination of figures and letters'; reg... https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2021-06/%20ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20REGULATIONS,%202000.pdf
  2. GG 37542 GN 287 of 9 April 2014 reproducing reg 27(5)(c) identically https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/37542gen287.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is za-zulu-royal-zk. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Africa's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/za \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "za-zulu-royal-zk")'
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