Telephone numbers in South Africa are administered by theIndependent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA). On 16 January 2007, the country switched to aclosed numbering plan . It became mandatory to dial the full nine-digit nationaltelephone number . For calls within the country, this is prefixed by trunk code0 (zero), which is often included in listings of thearea code .Area codes within the system are generally organized geographically. Special services byTelkom have numbers with special formats.
When dialed from another country, the national number is prefixed with the appropriateinternational access code and thetelephone country code 27.
Numbers were allocated whenSouth Africa had only four provinces, meaning that ranges are now split across the current nine provinces.
South-West Africa (includingWalvis Bay ) was integrated into the South African numbering plan.[ 1] International Telecommunication Union (ITU) had already allocated country code264 in the late 1960s.[ 2]
Following its independence,Namibia discontinueddirect dialing from South Africa and replaced it with international dialing using country code264 . For example, for a call from South Africa toWindhoek , before and after 1992:
Before 1992:0 61 xxx xxxx After 1992:09 264 61 xxx xxxx[ 3] After January 2007:00 264 61 xxx xxxx[ 4] Calls toLesotho could be made using the access code050 instead of the international code266 ; for example, to callMaseru from South Africa, subscribers would dial0501 .[ 5]
[ edit ] Calls toBotswana ,Swaziland andZimbabwe could similarly be made using theregional codes 0192 ,0194 and0191 , respectively, instead of theinternational codes 267 ,268 and263 .[ 6]
International access code effective from 16 October 2006 and mandatory from 16 January 2007.
The oldTransvaal province , currently comprisingGauteng ,Mpumalanga ,Limpopo and part of theNorth West :
010 : Newoverlay plan for Johannesburg011 :Witwatersrand regionaround Johannesburg , currently code for the entirety ofGreater Johannesburg 012 :Pretoria and surrounding towns (also includesBrits )013 : EasternGauteng (Bronkhorstspruit ) and Western and northern Mpumalanga:Middelburg ,Witbank andNelspruit 014 : Northern North West and Southwestern Limpopo:Rustenburg andModimolle 015 : Northern and Eastern Limpopo:Polokwane 016 :Vaal Triangle :Vereeniging ,Vanderbijlpark andSasolburg , which constitutes an anomaly, since Sasolburg isn't the oldTransvaal .017 : Southern Mpumalanga:Ermelo 018 : Southern North West:Mahikeng ,Lichtenburg ,Potchefstroom andKlerksdorp Two-thirds of the oldCape province , now comprisingWestern andNorthern Cape :
021 :Cape Town metropole and surrounds, includingStellenbosch ,Somerset West andGordon's Bay 022 :Boland and West Coast:Malmesbury 023 :Worcester and greaterKaroo , includingBeaufort West 027 : Namaqualand (Northern Cape):Vredendal ,Calvinia ,Clanwilliam ,Springbok ,Alexander Bay ,Port Nolloth 028 : Southern region:Swellendam andCaledon /Hermanus region.KwaZulu-Natal :
031 :Durban 032 : KZN North coast region:Verulam ,Tongaat ,Ballito andStanger 033 :Pietermaritzburg and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands034 :Vryheid ,Newcastle and Northern KZN035 : Zululand region:St. Lucia ,Richards Bay ,Ulundi 036 :Drakensberg region:Ladysmith 039 :KwaZulu-Natal South Coast region:Port Shepstone and interior, and Eastern Pondoland (in Eastern Cape)Remainder of one-third of old Cape province, now comprisingEastern Cape and eastern parts of the Western Cape:
040 :Bhisho 041 :Gqeberha andUitenhage 042 : Southern region:Humansdorp 043 :East London and surrounds044 :Garden Route , includingOudtshoorn ,Knysna ,Plettenberg Bay ,Mossel Bay andGeorge 045 : Central region:Queenstown 046 : Southern region:Grahamstown ,Bathurst ,Port Alfred ,Kenton-on-Sea 047 :Mthatha / most of previousTranskei 048 : Northern region:Steynsburg 049 : Western region:Graaff-Reinet Free State and Northern Cape
051 : Central and southern region:Bloemfontein , andAliwal North in E Cape053 :Kimberley , eastern part of Northern Cape, far west of NW province054 :Upington , Gordonia region056 : Northern Free State:Kroonstad 057 : Northern Free State:Welkom (Goldfields region)058 : Eastern Free State:Bethlehem Cellular[ 7]
0600 : Cellular: Used by Liquid Telecommunications (South Africa)0601 - 0602 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)0603 - 0605 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0606 - 0609 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 061 : Cellular: Used byCell C 062 : Cellular: Used byCell C 0630 - 0635 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0636 - 0637 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0640 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0641 - 0645 : Cellular: Used byCell C 0646 - 0649 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0650 - 0654 : Cellular: Used byCell C 0655 - 0657 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0658 - 0659 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)066 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0670 - 0672 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA [ 8] 0673 - 0675 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0676 - 0679 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)0680 - 0685 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)0686 - 0689 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0690 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0691 - 0699 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)0710 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0711 - 0716 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0717 - 0719 : Cellular: Used byMTN 072 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 073 : Cellular: Used by MTN074 : Cellular: Used byCell C 0741 : Cellular: Used by:Virgin Mobile as of June 2006 to September 2021[ 9] 076 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0771 - 0775 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 078 : Cellular: Used byMTN 079 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0810 : Cellular: Used byMTN 0811 - 0815 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)0816 : Cellular: Used byRain 0817 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)0818 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 0819 : Cellular: Used byTelkomSA (8.ta)082 : Cellular: Used byVodacom 083 : Cellular: Used byMTN 084 : Cellular: Used byCell C 080 :FreeCall , Toll-free, called party pays085 : Cellular: USAL license holders - Vodacom and MTN have some prefixes out of this range for their USAL offerings086 :Sharecall ,MaxiCall and premium-rate services, calls can be routed to regional offices automatically0860 :Sharecall Land line callers pay local call, called party pays long distance if applicable0861 :MaxiCall caller always pay long distance for call even if routed to local office0862 - 9 : Premium rate caller pays increasing rate linked to last digit[ 10] 0862, 0865, 0866, 08673, 08774, 08676 :Fax to Email caller always pay increasing rate linked to last digits08622, 086294 :Competition lines caller always pay premium rate08671 - 08674 :Information services caller always pay increasing rate linked to last digit087 : Value-added services (VoIP [1] among others)088 : Fax Divert, Pagers and Telkom CallAnswervoicemail 089 : Maxinet, for polls and radio call-in servicesNote that from 10 November 2006,mobile number portability was introduced in the cellular market. The cellular prefixes as above are therefore not strictly applicable anymore, although they remain mostly unchanged.
[ edit ] 090 : Premium-rate services[ 7] [ 11] 0902 : Premium-rated adult services[ 12] [ 7] 091 : Premium-rate services092 : Premium-rate services096 : Machine-related services (14-digit numbers)097 : Machine-related services (14-digit numbers)098 : Machine-related services (14-digit numbers)There are still some non-automated exchanges which use longer dialing codes, mostly for "farm lines" and remote areas with operator-assisted exchanges.
09X XXX XXXX numbers are no longer in use in South Africa.
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