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 part of the North West:
- 010: New overlay announced for Johannesburg (proposed November 2001-not in use)
- 011: Witwatersrand region around Johannesburg, currently code for entire Greater Johannesburg
- 012: Tshwane region: Pretoria and surrounding towns (also includes Brits in the North West Province)
- 013: Western and northern Mpumalanga: Middelburg, Witbank and Nelspruit
- 014: Northern North West and Southwestern Limpopo: Rustenburg and Nylstroom
- 015: Northern and Eastern Limpopo: Polokwane
- 016: Vaal Triangle: Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and Sasolburg, which constitutes an anomaly, since Sasolburg isn't the old Transvaal.
- 017: Southern Mpumalanga: Ermelo
- 018: Southern North West: Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp
- 021: Cape Town metropole and surrounds, including Stellenbosch, Somerset West and Gordons Bay
- 022: Boland and West Coast: Malmesbury
- 023: Worcester and greater Karoo, including Beaufort West
- 027: Namaqualand (Northern Cape): Vredendal, Calvinia, Clanwilliam, Springbok, Alexander Bay, Port Nolloth
- 028: Southern region: Swellendam and Caledon / Hermanus region.
- 031: Durban
- 032: KZN North coast region: Stanger
- 033: Pietermaritzburg and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
- 034: Vryheid, Newcastle and Northern KZN
- 035: Zululand region: St. Lucia, Richards Bay
- 036: Drakensberg region: Ladysmith
- 039: South coast: Port Shepstone and interior, and Eastern Pondoland (in Eastern Cape)
- 040: Bisho / previous Ciskei
- 041: Port Elizabeth
- 042: Southern region: Humansdorp
- 043: East London and surrounds
- 044: Garden Route, including Oudtshoorn, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Mossel Bay and George
- 045: Central region: Queenstown
- 046: Southern region: Grahamstown
- 047: Mthatha / most of previous Transkei
- 048: Northern region: Steynsburg
- 049: Western region: Graaff-Reinet
- 051: Central and southern region: Bloemfontein, and Aliwal North in E Cape
- 053: Kimberley, eastern part of Northern Cape, far west of NW province
- 054: Upington, Gordonia region
- 056: Northern Free State: Kroonstad
- 057: Northern Free State: Welkom (Goldfields region)
- 058: Eastern Free State: Bethlehem
- Before 1992: 061 xxx xxxx
- After 1992: 09 26461 xxx xxxx
- 072: Vodacom (spill-over from 082)
- 073: MTN (spill-over from 083)
- 074: Virgin Mobile as of June 2006 [link]
- 076: Vodacom (spill-over from 082) Although not all numbers in this range have been allocated
- 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: Value-added services (VoIP [link] among others)
- 088: Pagers and Telkom voicemail
- 089: Maxinet, for polls and radio call-in services
00: Proposed new International access code, not yet in use
There are still some non-automated exchanges which use longer dialing codes, mostly for 'Farm Lines' and remote areas.
External link
- [Routing codes] from the Telkom website (Excel spreadsheet)
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