 PASSPORT INFORMATION
Valid passport required by all and must be valid for 6 months after proposed departure years. Return Travel Ticket Required. Requirements may be subject to change at short notice. Contact the High Commission before departure
Basic requirements for entering South Africa
• You must have a passport valid for long enough to cover your intended stay in South Africa - along with a valid travel visa, if required.
• You must be of sound mind and body, and have a clear record as far as certain criminal offences are concerned.
• You must have enough money both to support yourself for a reasonable period after your arrival, and to pay for your return passage if you do not already have a return or onward ticket.
• Yellow fever
If you come from or have or traveled through or disembarked in a country in the yellow fever belt of Africa or South America, you must have proof of inoculation against the disease. Note that a yellow fever inoculation certificate only becomes valid 10 days after inoculation - after which it remains valid for 10 years
Who needs a visa?
• No visa requirements
If you fall under any of the following categories, then you do NOT need a visa to travel to SA for tourist, business or transit purposes (unless you have been specifically advised that your visa exemption has been withdrawn):
1. Holders of South African passports (or official travel documents issued in place of a passport) do NOT require visas.
2. Holders of passports of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - including the British Islands Bailiwick of Guernsey and Jersey, Isle of Mann and Virgin Islands - as well as the Republic of Ireland, are totally exempt from South African visa control.
HOWEVER Nationals of the British Dependent Territories are subject to visa control. These Territories are: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Henderson, Cucie and Oeno Islands, the Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands.
3. Holders of passports of the following countries may visit South Africa for holidays or business of unspecified length - or for transits - without a visa (unless specifically advised that their visa exemptions have been withdrawn):
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Iceland
• Italy
• Japan
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United States of America
• No visa requirements for up to 90 days
Holders of passports of the following countries may travel to South Africa for holiday or business trips of up to 90 days - or for transits - without a visa (unless specifically advised that their visa exemptions have been withdrawn):
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Ecuador
• Israel
• Jamaica
• Malta
• Paraguay
• St Helena
• Swaziland
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• No visa requirements for up to 30 days
Holders of passports of the following countries may visit South Africa for holiday travel or business trips of up to 30 days - or for transits - without a visa (unless specifically advised that their visa exemptions have been withdrawn):
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Barbados
• Belize
• Benin
• Bolivia
• Botswana
• Cape Verde
• Costa Rica
• Cyprus
• Gabon
• Guyana
• Hong Kong (Only holders of Hong Kong British National Overseas passports, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passports, or Hong Kong Certificates of Indemnity)
• Hungary
• Jordan
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Namibia
• Peru
• Seychelles
• Singapore
• Slovak Republic
• South Korea
• Thailand
• Turkey (Turkish Republic of North Cyprus passport not acceptable)
• Zambia
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