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Africa · Southern Africa

South Africa

Republic of South Africa

Research status: Partially verified

Official pages are recorded, but no official application portal confirmed. This one still needs your own research. Links last checked 2026-09-07.

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Photo credit

Pretoria, South Africa — photograph by Petrus Potgieter, Petrus at en.wikipedia, Public domain · source

Overview

South Africa is listed in the Visa Atlas directory with stable ISO codes ZA/ZAF, capital Pretoria. This directory covers 196 countries: the 193 United Nations member states plus the Holy See, the State of Palestine and Kosovo. That is a chosen editorial scope, not a universally accepted count — recognition and membership differ between organisations and governments, and listing a place here implies no political position.

Official resources

A working link is not proof of official status, and a reachable page is not expert review. Confirm every rule on the government site itself before you travel.

Official guidance

Source checked

This is the official page Visa Atlas opened for South Africa. It is the authority for visa categories, requirements, fees and processing times — those are not restated here unless an official schedule has been recorded field by field.

Apply for a visa | South African Government
“If you want to visit South Africa, you must produce a valid visa before you can enter into the country. A visa will be issued for a visit for tourism or business purposes and is valid for a period of 90 days.”
Quoted verbatim from www.gov.za.
Publisher:
www.gov.za
Link opened:
2026-09-07
Checked with:
HTTP request

Source checked is not expert review, and it does not make any eligibility claim for your nationality.

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