South Africa proxies

South Africa ranks #25 worldwide by the number of residential IPs in our pool.

There are 553 mobile addresses in South Africa right now — for accounts, use a sticky-session port (10000–20000) per profile.

There are 1,528 datacenter addresses in South Africa. They are cheaper ($0.80 per GB), but sites with strict checks block them more often.

Why South Africa calls for a local address

The country's main online store is Takealot. Makro, Game, the grocery chains Checkers and Pick n Pay, the classifieds board Gumtree.co.za and the price comparison site PriceCheck operate alongside it; Amazon.co.za has also been open since 2024. They show South African prices, availability and delivery when you visit from South Africa.

Prices are shown in rand and marked with the letter R before the amount: R 1 299. The 15% tax is included in the price. A script that looks for a currency sign may not recognise the letter R - for price monitoring, define this format explicitly.

The google.co.za search results are its own. For rank tracking you need a South African IP and the browser language en-ZA.

Cities and time zone

The city is set in the generator's advanced mode: USERNAME__cr.za;city.johannesburg. Write the name in Latin letters, in lowercase, as one word: city.capetown, city.durban, city.pretoria.

There is one time zone, Africa/Johannesburg, with no daylight saving time.

Which proxy type fits South African tasks

• Residential - residential IPs of South African internet providers. For marketplaces, price monitoring and Facebook ads. $1.59 per GB, more on the residential proxies page.
• Mobile - IPs of 4G/5G mobile networks. For Instagram and TikTok. $2.50 per GB, see mobile proxies.
• Datacenter - data center IPs, the lowest-priced option for catalogue scraping and bulk search result checks. $0.80 per GB, details on the datacenter proxies page.

The mobile carriers in South Africa are Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom. You can set a carrier by its ASN in advanced mode. Whether addresses of a particular carrier are available depends on the pool.

Speed and sales

South Africa is far from Europe, and a request through a South African address takes longer than one through a European address. Set timeouts with a margin: 30 seconds for scripts is a reasonable starting point.

Black Friday is the main sale of the year here, and at Takealot it stretches over several days. During this period prices change by the hour, and a once-a-day collection misses most of the changes.

For accounts, use a sticky IP on ports 10000-20000 with a session duration of up to 120 minutes. Before the first login, check that the IP, the time zone and the browser language (en-ZA) all point to the same country. You can check the IP, country and WebRTC on the My IP page, and guides for setting up software are collected in the guides section.

How to buy South Africa proxies

To buy South Africa proxy servers, create a plan, choose “South Africa” in the generator and pick HTTP or SOCKS5. Residential IPs in South Africa cost $1.59 per GB, mobile $2.50 and datacenter $0.80; the price is the same for every country. Pay with crypto; the traffic you buy never expires.

Good to know for any country

• The pool is shared: another customer may have used an address before. The anonymity filter in pool settings removes IPs that sites already flag as proxy or VPN.
• The country is free. Traffic with precise geo (region, city, ZIP or ISP) is billed ×2: 1 GB of such traffic uses 2 GB of your plan, we add nothing.
• Availability in a specific city changes during the day. If there are no free addresses, remove the city or pick a neighbouring one.
• In a sticky session, the IP of a home or mobile device can change before the session expires — when the device goes offline.
• The proxies carry TCP only: messenger calls and online games don't work. Some sites are closed to all customers — see the blocked sites page.