South African Telephone Numbering Plan

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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 anomoly, 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

External link

• Routing codes from the Telkom website (Excel spreadsheet)