Other passports
South Africa passport
Around 127 destinations you can enter visa-free, on arrival, or with an e-visa. Tap a country you can plan for.
Visa rules change often and depend on your circumstances (purpose, length of stay, prior travel). Always confirm with the destination's official embassy or consulate before booking. This is a guide, not legal advice.
Visa-free (60)
Angola Antigua & Barbuda Argentina → Bahamas Barbados Belize Benin 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 Israel Jamaica Kiribati Lesotho Macao SAR China Malawi Malaysia → Mauritius Micronesia Mozambique Namibia Nicaragua Palestinian Territories Panama Paraguay Peru → Philippines Russia Rwanda Seychelles Singapore → St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines Tanzania → Thailand → Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela Zambia Zimbabwe →
Visa on arrival (33)
Armenia Bolivia Burundi Cambodia → Cape Verde Comoros Djibouti Egypt → Ethiopia Guinea-Bissau Indonesia → Iran Jordan → Kyrgyzstan Laos Madagascar Maldives Marshall Islands Mauritania Nepal → Nigeria Oman → Palau Qatar → Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sri Lanka → Tajikistan Timor-Leste Tuvalu
e-Visa (29)
Albania Australia → Azerbaijan Bahrain Bhutan Burkina Faso Cameroon Colombia → Congo - Kinshasa Cuba → Equatorial Guinea Guinea India → Iraq Japan → Kazakhstan Libya Moldova Mongolia Myanmar (Burma) São Tomé & Príncipe South Sudan Suriname Syria Togo Türkiye Uganda United Arab Emirates → Vietnam →
Electronic travel authorization (ETA) (5)
Visa required (apply in advance) for 71 destinations, not listed here. Source: Passport Index dataset.