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South Africa passport: where can you travel visa-free?
93 destinations with no prior paperwork out of 197 listed countries.
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- Visa-free
- Visa on arrival
- Electronic authorisation (eTA)
- E-visa
- Visa required
- Admission refused
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Visa-free (60)
- Angola
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong SAR China
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Macao SAR China
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent & Grenadines
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Visa on arrival (29)
Electronic authorisation (eTA) (4)
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Papua New Guinea
- South Korea
- St. Kitts & Nevis
E-visa (35)
- Albania
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Congo - Kinshasa
- Cuba
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guinea
- India
- Iraq
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- São Tomé & Príncipe
- Togo
- Türkiye
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
Visa required (69)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- China
- Congo - Brazzaville
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- 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 Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tonga
- Turkmenistan
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Yemen
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Data last updated on 06/08/2026