South African Telephone Numbering Plan

(Redirected from List of South African calling codes)

South Africa has switched to a closed numbering system, although as of 2005 it still isn't mandatory to dial the three-digit area code. The trunk prefix is still '0', with the system generally organised geographically. All telephone numbers are 10 digits long (including the 3 for area code), except for certain Telkom special services. When dialed from another country, the '0' is omitted and replaced with the appropriate international access code.

Numbers were initially allocated when South Africa had four provinces, meaning that ranges are now split across the current nine provinces.

01: The old Transvaal province, currently comprising Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West:

010: New overlay announced for Johannesburg (November 2001)
011: Witwatersrand region: Johannesburg
012: Tshwane region: Pretoria
013: Western and northern Mpumalanga: Middelburg, Witbank and Nelspruit
014: Northern North West and Southern Limpopo: Rustenburg and Nylstroom
015: Northern Limpopo: Polokwane
016: Vaal Triangle: Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and Sasolburg, which constitutes an anomaly, since Sasolburg isn't the old Transvaal.
017: Southern Mpumalanga: Ermelo
018: Southern North West: Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp

02: Western and Northern Cape:

021: Cape Town metropole and surrounds
022: Boland and west coast: Malmesbury
023: Worcester and greater Karoo, including Beaufort West
027: West coast and Northern Cape: Vredendal, Calvinia, Clanwilliam, Springbok, Alexander Bay, Port Nolloth
028: Southern region: Swellendam

03: KwaZulu-Natal:

031: Durban
032: North coast region: Stanger
033: Pietermaritzburg
034: Vryheid
035: St. Lucia region: Richards Bay
036: Drakensberg region: Ladysmith
039: South coast: Port Shepstone

04: Eastern Cape and eastern parts of the Western Cape:

040: Bisho / previous Ciskei
041: Port Elizabeth
042: Southern region: Humansdorp
043: East London
044: Garden Route, including Oudtshoorn, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Mossel Bay and George
045: Central region: Queenstown
046: Southern region: Grahamstown
047: Umtata / previous Transkei
048: Northern region: Steynsburg
049: Western region: Graaff-Reinet

05: Free State and Northern Cape:

051: Central and southern region: Bloemfontein
053: Kimberley
054: Upington
056: Northern Free State: Kroonstad
057: Northern Free State: Welkom
058: Eastern Free State: Bethlehem

06: Currently unused. Was South-West Africa (now Namibia) until 1992, when direct dialling was discontinued. and replaced by international dialling with the +264 country code. For example, for a call from South Africa to Windhoek, before and after 1992:

Before 1992: 061 xxx xxxx
After 1992: 09 26461 xxx xxxx

07: Cellular

072: Vodacom (spill-over from 082)
073: MTN (spill-over from 083)
074: Unused, presumably future Cell C (spill-over from 084)
076: Vodacom (spill-over from 082) Although not all numbers in this range have been allocated

08: Special services

080: Toll-free
081: Current unused (?), was car phones
082: Cellular: Vodacom
083: Cellular: MTN
084: Cellular: Cell C
085: Cellular: Reserved for a 4th operator and for USAL license holders
086: "Sharecall" and premium-rate services
087: Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip) for some value-added network services (Vans) myadsl.co.za
088: Pagers and Telkom voicemail
089: Maxinet, for polls and radio call-in services

09: International access code being phased out as of May 2002

00: Proposed new International access code, not yet in use

[edit]

External link