NationMaster - Encyclopedia: South African Telephone Numbering Plan

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. A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... A trunk prefix is the number to be dialled in a domestic phone call, preceding any necessary area codes and subscriber numbers. ... Telkom SA Ltd. ... Each country has both a country calling code used to dial into a country and an international access code or international call prefix used to dial out of the country. ...

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: Flag of Transvaal For the Russian theme park, see Transvaal Park. ... Capital Johannesburg Largest city Johannesburg Area - Total Ranked 9th 17,010 kmÂ² Premier (List) Mbhazima Shilowa (ANC) Population - 2001 - 1996 - Density (2001) Ranked 2nd 8,837,172 7,348,423 520/kmÂ² (Ranked 1st) Languages isiZulu (21. ... Province motto Omnia labor vincit Capital Nelspruit Largest city Nelspruit Area - Total Ranked 8th 79,490 kmÂ² Premier (List) Thabang Makwetla (ANC) Population - 2001 - Density Ranked 7th 3,122,994 39/kmÂ² (2001) Languages SiSwati (30. ... Capital Polokwane Largest city Polokwane Area - Total Ranked 5th 123,900 kmÂ² Premier Mbhazima Shilowa (ANC) Population - 2001 - 1996 - Density (2001) Ranked 4th 5,273,637 4,929,368 43/kmÂ² (Ranked 3rd) Languages Races Black (97. ... Categories: South Africa stubs | North West Province | Provinces of South Africa ...

02: Western and Northern Cape: In telephony, especially in North America, an overlay plan is the practice of introducing a new area code by applying it onto a geographic area that is already occupied by one or more existing area codes, resulting in two (or more) area codes serving the same area. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous... Witwatersrand is a low mountain range which runs through Gauteng in South Africa. ... The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area is the official name of the area surrounding the city of Johannesburg, in South Africa. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area - % water 1,644 kmÂ² 0. ... The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan area contained mostly in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, that includes the city of Pretoria. ... City motto: Praestantia Praevaleat Pretoria (May Pretoria Be Pre-eminent In Excellence) Province Gauteng Area - % water 1,644 kmÂ² 0. ... Brits is a large town and district situated in a fertile, citrus-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa. ... This is about the city in the Netherlands. ... Witbank is situated on the highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa. ... Panoramic view from the hilltops Nelspruit is a city of 221,474 people (2000) situated in northeastern South Africa. ... Rustenburg (place of rest) is a large town situated in at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range in North West Province of South Africa. ... Modimolle (formerly known as Nylstroom) is a town located in the Waterberg in Limpopo Province of South Africa. ... ÅƒPolokwane (previously known as Pietersburg) is the capital of Limpopo Province (the province with the greatest increase in growth rate for 2003) in South Africa. ... The Vaal Triangle is a triangular area of land formed by Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and Sasolburg - three small cities that together comprise a substantial urban complex in South Africa. ... Vereeniging is a city in Gauteng province, South Africa, with a population of more than 350,000. ... Vanderbijlpark is an industrial city next to the Vaal River in southern Gauteng, South Africa. ... Sasolburg is a large industrial town in the Free State Province (formerly Orange Free State) of South Africa. ... Flag of Transvaal For the Russian theme park, see Transvaal Park. ... Ermelo is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. ... Potchefstroom Flag Potchefstroom is a large academic town with the North-West University, situated on the banks of the Mooi River (literally pretty river), 120 km west-southwest of Johannesburg in the North West Province of South Africa. ... Klerksdorp is a city and administrative district located in the North West Province (formerly Western Transvaal), South Africa. ... Capital Cape Town Largest city Cape Town Premier Ebrahim Rasool Area - Total Ranked 4th 129,370 kmÂ² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 5th 4,524,335 35/kmÂ² Languages Afrikaans (55. ... Northern Cape is a province of South Africa, created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. ...

03: KwaZulu-Natal: City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area - % water 2,499 kmÂ² N/A Population - Total (2004) - Density Not ranked 2,893,251 1,158/kmÂ² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2... Stellenbosch is the second oldest European settlement in South Africa after Cape Town, and is located in the Western Cape Province. ... Somerset West is a town in the Western Cape province in the Republic of South Africa. ... Gordons Bay is a harbour town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, close to Strand. ... Boland is a District Municipality in Western Cape Province in South Africa The Boland District Municipality covers the Witzenberg, Drakenstein, Stellenbosch, Breede Valley, and Breede River / Winelands Local Municipalities. ... Malmesbury is an old-established south Cotswold town in south west England in the county of Wiltshire. ... The city of Worcester (pronounced ) is a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England, situated some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Birmingham and 29 miles (47 km) north of Gloucester. ... The Karoo is a semi-desert region of South Africa. ... Beaufort West is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. ... Clanwilliam is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. ... Alexander Bay is a place in South Africa. ... Port Nolloth is a port in the Namaqualand Region on the north western coast of South Africa. ... Swellendam Municipality is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. ... Caledon can refer to: Caledon, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland Caledon, Ontario in Canada Caledon River in South Africa This is a disambiguation page â€” a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Cliffs with whale watchers seen from the old harbour. ... KwaZulu-Natal, often referred to as KZN, is a province of South Africa. ...

04: Eastern Cape and eastern parts of the Western Cape: City motto: Debile Principium Melion Fortuna Sequetu (Latin: Better Fortune Follows A Difficult Beginning) Province KwaZulu-Natal Mayor Obed Mlaba Area - % water 2,292 kmÂ² N/A Population - Total (2004) - Density Not ranked 3,346,799 1,460/kmÂ² Established 1835 Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Calling code 031 edit... KwaDukuza (also called Stanger) is a historic capital of the Zulus. ... Location of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province Pietermaritzburg was founded in 1838. ... Vryheid is a coal mining and cattle ranching town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ... Newcastle is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ... Richards Bay is South Africas largest harbour. ... The Drakensberg Drakensberg Range from space, April 1993 The Drakensberg (Dragon Mountains in Afrikaans) mountains are the highest in South Africa, rising up at Thabana Ntlenyana to 3,482 m (11,422 ft) in height. ... Ladysmith is the name of several places: in Canada: Ladysmith, British Columbia in the United States: Ladysmith, Wisconsin in South Africa: Ladysmith, South Africa Siege of Ladysmith, 1900 Ladismith This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Port Shepstone is situated on the mouth of the largest river on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Mzimkulu River (the great home of all rivers). ... The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. ...

05: Free State and Northern Cape Bisho is a town in South Africa, and the capital of the Eastern Cape Province. ... Ciskei Flag of Ciskei Ciskei was a Bantustan in the south east of South Africa. ... The Donkin Reserve Fort Frederick Horse Memorial Port Elizabeth (Afrikaans: Port Elizabeth; Xhosa: Ibhayi) is a city in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, at . ... Humansdorp is a small town and surrounding district in the Western Cape of South Africa, with a population of around 35,000 (COEGA,2002-3). ... East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... The Garden Route is a popular and scenic stretch of the southern coast of South Africa. ... Oudtshoorn is the largest town in in the Little Karoo region of South Africa. ... View over the lagoon, showing the Heads guarding the entrance to the sea Knysna (pronounced NIZE-nuh or NACE-nuh) is a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. ... Plettenberg Bay is a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. ... Mossel Bay, South Africa (spelt Mosselbaai in Afrikaans) lies along the Indian Ocean, east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of Humansdorp. ... George is the administrative capital of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. ... Queenstown, situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is the commercial, administrative and educational centre of a prosperous farming district. ... Grahamstown from Fort Selwyn Grahamstown is a city in the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. ... Mthatha (formerly Umtata) is the main town of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality in Eastern Cape province of South Africa. ... Flag of Transkei bantustan Political Map of South Africa prior to 1994 Transkei, as of 1978 The Transkei â€” which means the area beyond the Kei River â€” is a region situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. ... Graaff Reinet, a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 185 miles by rail NW by N of Port Elizabeth. ... Capital Bloemfontein Largest city Bloemfontein Area - Total Ranked 3rd 129,480 kmÂ² Premier Beatrice Marshoff (ANC) Population - 2001 - 1996 - Density Ranked 8th 2,706,776 2,633,504 21/kmÂ² (2001) Languages Sotho (62%) Afrikaans (14%) isiXhosa (9. ...

06: Currently unused. Was South-West Africa (now Namibia) until 1992, when direct dialling was discontinued. and replaced by international dialling with the +264 country code. For example, for a call from South Africa to Windhoek, before and after 1992: Coat of arms of Bloemfontein Bloemfontein (Dutch for fountain of flowers) is one of South Africas three capital cities, along with Pretoria and Cape Town. ... Aliwal North is a town on the Orange River, in central South Africa. ... Kimberley is a town in South Africa, and the capital of the Northern Cape. ... Upington is a town founded in 1871 and located in the Northern Cape, South Africa, along the Orange River. ... The town of Kroonstad, the third-largest town in Free State Province, South Africa lies two hours drive from Gauteng. ... Welkom is a city in central South Africa, in the northwestern part of Free State Province, with a population in 2001 of 191,336. ... Bethlehem is a town in the Free State Province of South Africa that is situated in a fertile valley of the Maluti Mountains on the N5 highway. ... South-West Africa is the former name (1884-1990) of Namibia under German (as German South-West Africa, Deutsch SÃ¼d-West Afrika) and (from 1915) South African administration when it was conquered from the Germans during World War I. Following the war, the Treaty of Versailles declared the territory... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Windhoek, Namibia Windhoek (pronounced Â«VINT hookÂ» or Â«VUNT (h)ookÂ») is the capital of Namibia, 22. ...

08: Special services Vodacom is a South African based mobile telecommunications company, and was the first mobile telecommunications company in South Africa. ... MTN is a South African based multinational telecommunications company, currently operating in eight African countries. ... Virgin Mobile Ltd is a mobile phone service provider operating in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States and France. ... June 2006 : â† - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â†’ June 1, 2006 (Thursday) Extraordinary renditions. ... Vodacom is a South African based mobile telecommunications company, and was the first mobile telecommunications company in South Africa. ... MTN is a South African based multinational telecommunications company, currently operating in eight African countries. ... Vodacom is a South African based mobile telecommunications company, and was the first mobile telecommunications company in South Africa. ...

Note that since 10 November 2006, mobile number portability was introduced in the cellular market. The cellular prefixes as above is therefore not applicable anymore although mostly still the same. ... Vodacom is a South African based mobile telecommunications company, and was the first mobile telecommunications company in South Africa. ... MTN is a South African based multinational telecommunications company, currently operating in eight African countries. ... Cell C is South Africas third mobile phone network operator, having commenced operations in November of 2001. ... IP Telephony, also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation over the Internet or a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) network instead of dedicated voice transmission lines. ... Voicemail (or voice mail; abbreviated v-mail or vmail), invented by Scott A. Jones, is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

09: International access code being phased out as of May 2002 Each country has both a country calling code used to dial into a country and an international access code or international call prefix used to dial out of the country. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for May, 2002. ...

00: Proposed new International access code, not yet in use Each country has both a country calling code used to dial into a country and an international access code or international call prefix used to dial out of the country. ...

There are still some non-automated exchanges which use longer dialing codes, mostly for 'Farm Lines' and remote areas.

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History
Cape Colony • Apartheid • Foreign relations • Nuclear programme Telkom SA Ltd. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Africa. ... South Africa History History of South Africa Events Zulu War (see also Anglo-Zulu War) Boer War Pretoria Convention Sharpeville Massacre Rivonia Trial Historical Groups Azanian Peoples Liberation Army Democratic Party (South Africa) (DP) Dutch East India Company National Party Umkhonto we Sizwe Places Robben Island Bantustan Bophuthatswana Ciskei QwaQwa... The history of South Africa is viewed differently by various scholars and by its various population groups because South Africa is a multicultural country. ... History of Cape Colony via a written history of the area known as Cape Colony, and later Cape Province in South Africa began when Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese navigator, discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. ... Petty apartheid: sign on Durban beach in English, Afrikaans and Zulu Apartheid (literally apartness in Afrikaans and Dutch) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. ... Foreign Relations of South Africa South African forces fought on the Allied side in both World War I and World War II, and it participated in the postwar United Nations force in the Korean War. ... South Africa developed six or seven gun-type fission nuclear weapons in the 1980s. ...

Geography
Cities • National parks • Postal codes • Telephone codes Southern Africa seen from Aqua and Terra satellites. ... There are officially nine cities in South Africa (members of the South African cities network). ... Most of South Africas national parks are maintained by South Africa National Parks (SANPark) while the parks in KwaZulu-Natal are managed by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (an amalgamation of the former Natal Parks Board and KwaZulu Directorate of Nature Conservation). ... Post Codes were introduced in South Africa in 1975, with the introduction of automated sorting. ...

Politics
Constitution • Political parties • Elections • Provinces • Military • Police // Constitution Following the 1994 elections, South Africa was governed under an interim constitution. ... Political parties in South Africa lists political parties in South Africa. ... Elections in South Africa take place on national, provincial, and local levels. ... A map of the nine provinces of South Africa South Africa is currently divided into nine provinces. ...

Culture
South African English • Art • Cinema • Cuisine • Islam • Literature • Music • Poets • Public holidays • Television (TV series) • Scouts There is no single Culture of South Africa. ... South African English is a dialect of English spoken in South Africa and in neighbouring countries with a large number of Anglo-Africans living in them, such as Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. ... art forms of southern africa, is beautifully painted vases and wood made into animals Categories: Africa-related stubs ... South African cuisine varies widely, representing the food of indigenous people and of all those who have immigrated since. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... South Africa has a diverse literary history. ... The South African music scene includes both popular (jive) and folk forms. ... Lionel Abrahams Tatamkulu Afrika Shabbir Banoobhai Robert Berold Breyten Breytenbach Dennis Brutus Roy Campbell Jeremy Cronin Patrick Cullinan Sheila Cussons Achmat Dangor Ingrid de Kok Sandile Dikeni Modikwe Dikobe Isobel Dixon CJ Driver Jeremy Gordin Nadine Gordimer Stephen Gray Mafika Gwala Bruce Hewett Christopher Hope Fhazel Johennesse Sarah Johnson Keorapetse... Holidays in South Africa: The Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) determines that whenever any public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday following it will be a public holiday. ... The following is a partial list of South African television series. ... Emblem of the South African Scout Association The South African Scout Association organizes the Scouting movement in South Africa. ...

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Notable South Africans • HIV/AIDS • Communications • Transport • Companies South Africa History History of South Africa Events Zulu War (see also Anglo-Zulu War) Boer War Pretoria Convention Sharpeville Massacre Rivonia Trial Historical Groups Azanian Peoples Liberation Army Democratic Party (South Africa) (DP) Dutch East India Company National Party Umkhonto we Sizwe Places Robben Island Bantustan Bophuthatswana Ciskei QwaQwa... This is a list of notable South Africans with Wikipedia articles. ... HIV and AIDS in South Africa are a major health concern. ... // Telephone Telephones - main lines in use: 4. ... This is a list of companies in South Africa. ...

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