List of postal codes in South Africa

Post Codes were introduced in South Africa in 1975, with the introduction of automated sorting.

South African Post codes consist of four digits. In the case of cities and large towns, the last two digits may indicate the mode of delivery:

The above codes apply only to the central areas of the cities and the main post offices. Groups of suburbs share postal codes for street address and branch post offices have post codes which fall within the number range for that city. Other code ranges are assigned to different parts of the country

The general pattern is:

These are the main code ranges:

Note that postal code boundaries do not follow provincial borders exactly, especially since the re-oganisation of provinces in 1994.

Example of Johannesburg suburban codes for street addresses are:

A feature of South African postal addresses, also common to Australia, is that it is only necessary to include the suburb, not the city, for example, in the case of Yeoville in Johannesburg:

47 Rockey Street
2198 YEOVILLE

Note that the code should be placed in front of the suburb/town, or on a new line on its own. The following is also acceptable.

47 Rockey Street
YEOVILLE
2198

The South African post code system (number range 9000-9299) was also used in Namibia until 1992, when they were withdrawn from use by the country's postal service:

Private Bag X1
WINDHOEK 9000

South Africa's neighbours, Lesotho and Swaziland, have their own separate post code systems.

[edit] External links

• South African Post Office
• South African Postal Codes

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