Deaths are registered with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) in South Africa. You can get an 'abridged' death certificate at any DHA office.The executor will need to take along the death certificate, identity document of the deceased and a certified copy and the letter of executorship or authority. This is to certify that I. (applicant's name and surname), with passport number. The presence of the new and more transmissible strain originally found in South Africa was confirmed in Comoros.