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rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications for renewals or extensions of such rights, and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world.
2. Apply and pay the administration fee online at www.cao.ac.za and once the administration fee has been cleared, your application will be made available to the institution/s to which you have applied on the next business day.
2.1 When you apply online and then pay via EasyPay, your application will be made available to institutions the next business day after your funds have been cleared.
2.2 If you apply by submitting a hard copy application form and you pay the administration fee, your application takes at least two weeks after we receive your application form and payment before it is available to the institution/s to which you have applied.
3. Complete and submit your online application as soon as possible on our website (www.cao.ac.za).
4. The CAO processes applications for member institutions from 01 March for the following year's January (First Semester) intake. The CAO processes applications for member institutions that have a Second Semester intake from 01 August for the following year’s July (Second Semester) intake.
5. For TVET College applications, contact the TVET college directly.
6. All supporting documents must be uploaded on our website
(www.cao.ac.za). We do not accept hard copy or emailed documents.
6.1. Ensure that documents are clear and legible. Illegible documents
could delay or jeopardise the selection process at institutions.
7. The earlier in the year you apply, the earlier you are considered for a
place.
8. Your biographical details (ID number and Full Name and Surname) must be an exact match with your details on your DBE Final Grade 12
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Examination. If they differ, we will not be able to download your final examination results from the DBE database and match them to your application information at the institution to which you have applied.
9. An application is considered to be valid only once the full application (online or hard copy), including the programme choices, signed Declaration and Informed Consent (u18’s) as well as the full administration fee have been received by the CAO. Only then will your valid application be processed and made available to institutions.
10. The official Received Date for the application will be the date on which the completed/valid application – with programme choices, full payment, Signed Declaration and Informed Consent (u18’s) have been received. Only then will your valid application be processed and made available to institutions.
11. Administration and Change of Mind (COM) fees are not refundable.
12. You must supply the correct email and cell phone number as all messages are sent to you via SMS and/or email while all letters are sent to you via email.
13. Without a valid cell phone number, you will not receive any messages from the CAO or institutions to which you have applied. Without a valid email address, you may miss requests or offers made by the institution/s to which you applied.
14. The cell phone and email details we use are those on your original application or that you have since updated online AFTER you have applied. See Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 on www.gov.za regarding emailed documents.
15. Within four weeks after CAO receives your valid application, we will send you an Acknowledgement Letter by email in which the CAO acknowledges that we have received and processed your application.
16. The Acknowledgement Letter will have all the details you have provided on your application. Applicants are fully responsible for checking
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