00:
International access code effective from 16 October 2006 and mandatory from 16 January 2007.
01: The old
Transvaal province, currently comprising
Gauteng,
Mpumalanga,
Limpopo and part of the
North West:
010: New
overlay plan for Johannesburg
011:
Witwatersrand region
around Johannesburg, currently code for entire Greater Johannesburg
012:
Pretoria and surrounding towns (also includes
Brits)
013: Eastern
Gauteng (
Bronkhorstspruit) and Western and northern Mpumalanga:
Middelburg,
Witbank and
Nelspruit014: Northern North West and Southwestern Limpopo:
Rustenburg and
Modimolle015: Northern and Eastern Limpopo:
Polokwane016:
Vaal Triangle:
Vereeniging,
Vanderbijlpark and
Sasolburg, which constitutes an anomaly, since Sasolburg isn't the old
Transvaal.
017: Southern Mpumalanga:
Ermelo018: Southern North West:
Lichtenburg,
Potchefstroom and
Klerksdorp
02:
Western and
Northern Cape:
021:
Cape Town metropole and surrounds, including
Stellenbosch,
Somerset West and
Gordon's Bay022:
Boland and West Coast:
Malmesbury023:
Worcester and greater
Karoo, including
Beaufort West024:
Somerset West (Became 021 in 1996)
027: Namaqualand (Northern Cape):
Vredendal,
Calvinia,
Clanwilliam,
Springbok,
Alexander Bay,
Port Nolloth028: Southern region:
Swellendam and
Caledon /
Hermanus region.
03:
KwaZulu-Natal:
031:
Durban032: KZN North coast region:
Verulam,
Tongaat,
Ballito and
Stanger033:
Pietermaritzburg and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
034:
Vryheid,
Newcastle and Northern KZN
035: Zululand region:
St. Lucia,
Richards Bay,
Ulundi036:
Drakensberg region:
Ladysmith039: South coast:
Port Shepstone and interior, and Eastern Pondoland (in Eastern Cape)
04:
Eastern Cape and eastern parts of the Western Cape:
040:
Bhisho041:
Port Elizabeth and
Uitenhage042: Southern region:
Humansdorp043:
East London and surrounds
044:
Garden Route, including
Oudtshoorn,
Knysna,
Plettenberg Bay,
Mossel Bay and
George045: Central region:
Queenstown046: Southern region:
Grahamstown,
Bathurst,
Port Alfred,
Kenton-on-Sea047:
Mthatha / most of previous
Transkei048: Northern region:
Steynsburg049: Western region:
Graaff-Reinet
05:
Free State and Northern Cape
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:
Kroonstad057: Northern Free State:
Welkom (Goldfields region)
058: Eastern Free State:
Bethlehem
06: Mostly unused, partially allocated for Cellular use.
0603 - 0605: Cellular: Used by
MTN0606 - 0609: Cellular: Used by
Vodacom0610 - 0613: Cellular: Used by
Cell C0614: Cellular: Used by
8ta (Telkom)
0615: Cellular: Used by
Cell C0618 - 0624: Cellular: Used by
Cell C062: Cellular: Used by
Vodacom063: Cellular: Used by
MTN064: Cellular: Used by Cell CCellular: Used by Cell C
07: Cellular
0710:
MTN (spill-over from 083)
0711 - 0716:
Vodacom (spill-over from 082)
0717 - 0719:
MTN (spill-over from 083)
072:
Vodacom (spill-over from 082)
073:
MTN (spill-over from 083)
074:
Cell C (Cell C has allocated 0741 to Virgin Mobile)
0741:
Virgin Mobile as of June 2006
[6]076:
Vodacom (spill-over from 082)
078:
MTN (spill-over from 083)
079:
Vodacom (spill-over from 082)
08: Special services
080:
FreeCall, Toll-free, called party pays
0810: Cellular:
MTN0811 - 0815: Telkom Mobile (
8ta)
0816: WBS Mobile (should be noted that Vodacom and MTN both have terminated SMS interconnect with WBS so SMS messages to/from this number range are /dev/null'ed)
0817: Telkom Mobile (
8ta)
0818: Cellular:
Vodacom082: Cellular:
Vodacom083: Cellular:
MTN083-9 Cellular rates to Telkom lines, reroutes call to a telkom line and pays number owner for received calls
084: Cellular:
Cell C085: Cellular: USAL license holders - Vodacom and MTN have some prefixes out of this range for their USAL offerings
086:
Sharecall,
MaxiCall and premium-rate services, calls can be routed to regional offices automatically
0860:
Sharecall Land line callers pay local call, called party pays long distance if applicable
0861:
MaxiCall caller always pay long distance for call even if routed to local office
0862 - 9: Premium rate caller pays increasing rate linked to last digit
[7]0862, 0865, 0866, 08673, 08774, 08676:
Fax to Email caller always pay increasing rate linked to last digits
08622, 086294:
Competition lines caller always pay premium rate
08671 - 08674:
Information services caller always pay increasing rate linked to last digit
087: Value-added services (
VoIP [1] among others)
088: Pagers and Telkom CallAnswer
voicemail089: Maxinet, for polls and radio call-in services
Note that since 10 November 2006,
mobile number portability was introduced in the cellular market. The cellular prefixes as above are therefore not strictly applicable anymore although they remain mostly unchanged.
09: Old
international access code no longer in use.
There are still some non-automated exchanges which use longer dialing codes, mostly for 'Farm Lines' and remote areas with operator assisted exchanges.
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