Verified Developer Tools in South Africa
4 verified developer tools for building in South Africa. Every one has had its documentation, licensing and live status checked, not just listed. Last verified 10 Jul 2026.
PuoBERTa
PuoBERTa is a RoBERTa-based masked language model purpose-built for Setswana, trained on the PuoData corpus by the Data Science for Social Impact group. It ships with example scripts for fill-mask, news classification, NER and POS tagging via HuggingFace Transformers.
south-african-id-validator
TypeScript-native validator for 13-digit South African ID numbers that checks the Luhn checksum and extracts date of birth, gender and citizenship status. Zero runtime dependencies, runs on Node, Bun, Deno and browsers.
za-id-number
Python library to validate and parse South African (RSA/ZA) identity numbers using the Luhn check digit, breaking the number into birth date, gender and citizenship components. Installable with pip install za-id-number.
SouthAfricanIDValidator
A PHP package that validates South African ID numbers by checking structural rules, the embedded birth date, gender and citizenship digits, and the Luhn checksum. It is actively maintained with a substantial test suite. Installable via Composer.