Government Printing Works (GPW) is a government component reporting to the Department of Home Affairs that specializes in security printing of important national documents such as passports, visas, birth certificates, green ID books, smart card identification ID, examination materials, and general government printing such as stationery and publications such as government gazettes.
GPW has over 130 years of security printing experience and is currently Africa’s leading security printing specialist, with a high-tech production facility that boasts modern and world-class equipment.
Vision
To be the State’s mandated security document enabler and digital trust centre.
Mission
GPW serves to:
- Provide cost-effective, secure, reliable, and timeous services to all spheres of government.
- Provide the public with equitable information; and
- Leverage on digital transformation to disseminategovernment information through technology, innovation, and service excellence
Values
GPW is committed to being:
- Customer centric
- Service-oriented
- Productive
- Ethical and having integrity
- Caring
- Security conscious
- Professional