South Africa passport — visa-free travel

Enter without arranging a visa in advance.

• Angola30d
• Antigua and Barbuda180d
• Argentina90d
• Bahamas90d
• Barbados180d
• Belize
• Benin90d
• Bolivia90d
• Botswana90d
• Brazil90d
• Chile90d
• Costa Rica180d
• Dominica180d
• Dominican Republic30d
• Ecuador90d
• El Salvador180d
• Eswatini30d
• Federated States of Micronesia30d
• Fiji120d
• Gabon30d
• Gambia90d
• Georgia360d
• Ghana90d
• Grenada90d
• Guatemala90d
• Guyana30d
• Haiti90d
• Honduras90d
• Hong Kong30d
• Jamaica
• Kenya90d
• Kiribati90d
• Lesotho
• Malawi90d
• Malaysia90d
• Mauritius90d
• Mozambique
• Namibia90d
• Nicaragua90d
• Panama90d
• Paraguay90d
• Peru180d
• Philippines30d
• Russia90d
• Rwanda30d
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90d
• Seychelles90d
• Singapore30d
• St Lucia42d
• Tanzania90d
• Thailand60d
• Trinidad and Tobago90d
• Tunisia90d
• Uruguay90d
• Vanuatu120d
• Venezuela90d
• Zambia90d
• Zimbabwe90d

Get a visa at the border on arrival.

• Armenia120d
• Burundi30d
• Cabo Verde
• Cambodia30d
• Comoros45d
• Djibouti90d
• Egypt30d
• Ethiopia90d
• Guinea-Bissau90d
• Indonesia30d
• Iran30d
• Jordan30d
• Kyrgyzstan30d
• Laos30d
• Madagascar90d
• Maldives30d
• Marshall Islands90d
• Nepal150d
• Oman30d
• Palau30d
• Qatar30d
• Samoa90d
• Saudi Arabia90d
• Senegal30d
• Sierra Leone30d
• Sri Lanka30d
• Tajikistan45d
• Timor-Leste30d
• Tuvalu30d

Apply online for a travel authorisation before you go (e.g. ESTA, eTA).

• Côte d'Ivoire90d
• Israel90d
• Papua New Guinea30d
• South Korea30d
• St Kitts and Nevis90d

Apply for a visa online before you travel.

• Albania
• Australia
• Azerbaijan30d
• Bahrain
• Bhutan
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Colombia
• Cuba90d
• Democratic Republic of the Congo7d
• Equatorial Guinea
• Guinea90d
• India30d
• Iraq
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Libya
• Mauritania90d
• Moldova
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nigeria90d
• Pakistan30d
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Somalia
• South Sudan90d
• Suriname90d
• Syria
• Togo15d
• Turkey90d
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• Vietnam90d

Apply for a visa at an embassy or consulate before travel.

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Austria
• Bangladesh
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brunei Darussalam
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Central African Republic
• China
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Mali
• Malta
• Mexico
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Nauru
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Niger
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Republic of the Congo
• Romania
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• Spain
• Sudan
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Tonga
• Turkmenistan
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uzbekistan
• Yemen