Requirements For Entering South Africa
You will need the following if you wish to visit South Africa:
- A valid and acceptable passport or travel document for your intended stay
- At least one blank page in your passport for endorsements
- A valid visa, if required
- Sufficient funds to pay for your day-to-day expenses during your stay
- A return or onward ticket
- Yellow fever certificates if your journey starts or entails passing through the yellow fever belt of Africa or South America.
Don’t forget that there are certain goods that you cannot bring into South Africa and other goods on which duties need to be paid.
For Customs requirements, click here: http://www.sars.gov.za/ClientSegments/Customs-Excise/Travellers/Pages/Arrival-in-SA.aspx
For Agricultural requirements, click here: http://www.daff.gov.za/daffweb3/Services/Imports
ORDINARY PASSPORT / TRAVEL DOCUMENT HOLDERS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO SOUTH AFRICAN VISA FEES
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
Fees for the issuance of a visitor’s visa in terms of section 11(1) of the Immigration Act shall be collected in respect of passport / travel document holders of the following foreign countries when travelling on an ordinary passport (visa fees are not levied for diplomatic and official/service passport holders). Please note that countries marked with an asterisk are only subject to visa fees if the intended visit exceeds thirty (30) days:
Aden
Afghanistan (Transitional Islamic State of)
Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus (Sovereign base area of)
Albania (Republic of)
American Samoa
Andorra (Principality of)
Angola (Republic of)
Anguilla
Armenia (Republic of)
Aruba
Ascension
Azerbaijan (Republic of)
Australia
Austria (Republic of)
Bahamas (The Commonwealth of the)
Bahrain (The Kingdom of)
Belarus (Republic of)
Belau (Palau) Republic of)
Belgium
Belize*
Byelorussia
Benin (Dahomey) (Republic of)*
Bhutan (Kingdom of)
Bosnia/Herzegovina
Bouvet Islands
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darassalam
Bulgaria (Republic of)
Burkina Faso (Republic of)
Burma (Myanmar)
Burundi (Republic of)
Cambodia (Kampuchea) (Kingdom of)
Cameroon (Republic)
Cayman Islands
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
China (People’s Republic of)
Comoros (Union of)
Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Cote D’lvoire (Republic of)
Croatia (Republic of)
Cuba (Republic of)
Denmark (Kingdom of)
Dahomey (Benin) (Republic of Benin)
Diego Garcia
Djibouti (Republic of)
Dominican Republic
Ducie & Oeno Islands
Eastern Caribbean
El Salvador (Republic of)
Ellice Island (Tuvalu)
Equatorial Guinea*
Eritrea (State of)
Estonia (Republic of)
Ethiopia (The Federal Democratic Republic of)
Falkland Islands
Fiji Islands (Republic of the)
Finland (Republic of)
France (Republic of)
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon (Republic of)*
Gambia (The)
Georgia (Republic of)
Germany (Federal Republic of)
Ghana (Republic of)
Gibraltar
Gilbert Island (Kiribati)
Greece (Hellenic Republic of)
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala (Republic of)
Guinea (Republic of)
Guinea-Bissau (Republic of)
Haiti (Republic of)
Henderson
Holy See
Honduras (Republic of)
Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region)*
Iceland (Republic of)
Indonesia (Republic of)
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq (Republic of)
Italy (Republic of)
Ivory Coast (Republic of Còte D’Ivoire)
Jamaica
Japan
Kampuchea (Cambodia) (Kingdom of)
Kazakhstan (Republic of)
Kenya (Republic of)*
Kyrgyzstan
Kiribati (Gilbert Island)
Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of/North)
Korea (|Republic of/South)*
Kyrgyz Republic
Laos (People’s Democratic Republic)
Latvia (Republic of)
Lebanon (Republic of)
Liberia
Libya (Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
Lithuania (Republic of)
Luxemburg (Grand Duchy of)
Macedonia (The former Yugoslav Republic of)
Madagascar (Republic of)
Malaysia (Federation of)*
Mali (Republic of)
Martinique
Marshall Islands (Republic of)
Mauritania (Islamic Republic of)
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Moldova (Republic of)
Monaco (Principality of)
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco (Kingdom of)
Mozambique (Republic of)
Myanmar (Burma) (The Union of)
Naura (Republic of)
Nepal (Kingdom of)
Netherlands (The Royal)
Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria (Republic of)
Northern Marianas
Norway
Oman (Sultanate of)
Pakistan (Islamic Republic of)
Palau (Belau) (Republic of)
Panama (Republic of)
Papua New Guinea
Philippines (Republic of the)*
Pitcairn Islands
Poland (Republic of)
Portugal (Republic of)
Puerto Rico
Qatar (State of)
Reunion
Romania
Russian Federation (except private guests of Embassy or Consular staff)
Rwanda (Republic of)
Samoa (The Independent State of)
San Marino (Republic of)
Sao Tome & Principe (Democratic Republic of)
Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of)
Serbia & Montenegro
Sierra Leone (Republic of)
Singapore (Republic of)
Slovenia (Republic of)
Somalia
Spain (Kingdom of)
Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of)
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
Sudan (Republic of the)
Suriname (Republic of)
Syrian (Arab Republic)
Tajikistan (Republic of)
Tanzania (United Republic of)
Thailand (Kingdom of)*
Togo (Republic of)
Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of)
Tristan da Cunha
Tunisia (Republic of)
Turkey (Republic of)*
Turkmenistan (Republic of)
Turks & Caicos Islands
Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)
Uganda (Republic of)
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States of America
Uzbekistan (Republic of)
Vanuatu (Republic of)
Vatican City (Holy S ee)
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)
Western Sahara
Yemen (Republic of)