South Africa proxies with rotation and sticky sessions

A line with the ZA geo exits through home connections of subscribers in South Africa: Takealot, Checkers and Property24 see a shopper from Johannesburg or Cape Town. Rotation for catalogs and search results, sticky for accounts. The MIX packages give you unlimited traffic, and each line in the CSV list shows its country. A test gigabyte costs $1.

  • ZA geo in the line
  • Rotation and sticky
  • Unlimited in MIX
  • $1 test

Three ways to get South African addresses

The choice depends on the job: you need only this country, you need traffic with no meter, or you need a pool where South Africa comes with other countries. Compare the terms and start with a test.

FLEX

Country set when creating lines

In the dashboard choose South Africa, the session type and the protocol, and the list gives you up to 1,000 lines at a time. The gigabytes of an order are shared across all countries, with no cap on threads or speed.

  • Rotation: a new IP in South Africa on every request
  • Sticky: one address for at most 24 hours while the subscriber is online
  • From $0.55 per GB, test gigabyte for $1
  • Login and password access from any IP
FLEX plan

How country lines work

FLEX PRO and LTE

Two more per-GB plans with country choice

Besides the country, FLEX PRO sets the region, city and provider, holds sticky for up to 24 hours and gives up to 30 Mbit/s per proxy. LTE exits through mobile carriers in South Africa, sticky up to 2 hours.

  • FLEX PRO from $1.50 per GB, city and provider to choose
  • LTE from $2.30 per GB, mobile network addresses
  • Login and password access, unlimited threads
All plans and prices

Plans in other countries

MIX packages

Worldwide pool, South Africa among the countries

MIX-Basic, MIX-Business and MIX-Elite are gathered from all over the world. You do not pick a country when ordering, but each address in the CSV list has a country column, so South African lines filter out in a second.

  • Unlimited traffic, 500 to 9,900 threads
  • Test hour $1, 30 days from $50
  • Fits when you need South Africa alongside other countries
MIX plans

Can I choose a country in MIX

Regions and cities of South Africa

A FLEX line selects the whole country. Gauteng with Johannesburg and Pretoria covers one and a half percent of the area and holds a quarter of the population, and KwaZulu-Natal with Durban another fifth. The Northern Cape covers a third of the map with two percent of the population.

Map of South Africa: regions and major citiesEastern CapeFree StateGautengLimpopoMpumalangaNorthern CapeKwaZulu-NatalNorth WestWestern CapeJohannesburgCape TownDurbanPretoriaGqeberhaEast LondonBloemfonteinPietermaritzburgMbombelaRustenburgPolokwaneKimberleyGeorgeUpingtonMahikengBhisho
  • national capital
  • major city or regional center

Provinces

RegionCapitalPopulation
GautengJohannesburg15.1 million
KwaZulu-NatalPietermaritzburg12.4 million
Western CapeCape Town7.4 million
Eastern CapeBhisho7.2 million
LimpopoPolokwane6.6 million
MpumalangaMbombela5.1 million
North WestMahikeng3.8 million
Free StateBloemfontein3.0 million
Northern CapeKimberley1.4 million

Largest cities

  1. Johannesburg6.2 million
  2. Cape Town4.8 million
  3. Durban3.9 million
  4. Pretoria2.9 million
  5. Gqeberha1.2 million
  6. East London800 thousand
  7. Bloemfontein750 thousand
  8. Pietermaritzburg700 thousand
  9. Mbombela700 thousand
  10. Rustenburg600 thousand
  11. Polokwane500 thousand
  12. Mahikeng300 thousand
  13. Kimberley250 thousand
  14. George200 thousand
  15. Bhisho140 thousand
  16. Upington100 thousand

Population of provinces from the Stats SA 2022 census, of cities by urban-area estimates.

South Africa: what to know before you start

Where South Africans live

Gauteng with Johannesburg, Pretoria and Soweto is the economic heart of the country and the densest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape Town holds the southwest, and Durban is the main port on the Indian Ocean. The Karoo and the Kalahari in the west are almost empty.

Internet and providers

Three quarters of residents are online, most of them from a phone. Mobile networks are Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, Telkom and Rain, home fiber is laid by Vumatel, Openserve and Frogfoot, and dozens of providers sell it. Sites treat the home address of such a subscriber as an ordinary visitor.

Language, time and prices

There are twelve official languages, but sites almost always work in English, the en-ZA version. One time zone, UTC+2, with no daylight saving time. Prices are in rand, and postal codes have four digits.

What people collect through South African proxies

Prices, stock, delivery and search results on South African sites depend on the visitor's address. Below are typical jobs and the line to start with.

Takealot

Marketplace

The country's largest online store, the Amazon of South Africa. Listings and rand prices for a local shopper, and rotation collects the catalog.

FLEX, rotation

Checkers Sixty60, Pick n Pay, Woolworths

Groceries and stock

The chains show prices and delivery by area. Rotation for the catalog, and the address is set on the site.

FLEX, rotation

Property24 and Private Property

Real estate

Sales and rentals by province and suburb, prices in rand. Rotation for listings, and the district is set with a filter.

FLEX, rotation

Google.co.za

Rankings and search results

Results for South Africa with the parameters gl=za and hl=en. For bulk rank checks, the unlimited MIX packages fit well.

FLEX, rotation

AutoTrader and Cars.co.za

Cars

Cars across the country with prices in rand. Rotation for catalogs, seller accounts under sticky.

FLEX, rotation

Gumtree South Africa

Classifieds

Private listings by city. Collection with rotation, posting and messaging under sticky.

FLEX, rotation

Seller dashboards and ad accounts

Accounts

A store on Takealot or an account on Gumtree expects logins from a single country. Sticky keeps a South African IP for the term set in the dashboard, up to a day, while the exit device is alive, then hands out the next one.

FLEX, sticky

Ad and localization checks

ZA geo-targeting

Ads targeting South Africa, subscription prices in rand and South African versions of services are visible only from a local address.

FLEX, sticky

How to get a line with the ZA geo

  1. 1
    Sign up in the dashboard and top up your balance.

    A test gigabyte costs $1 and covers about 5,000 pages without images.

  2. 2
    Create a list of lines.

    Country South Africa, session type, protocol and number of lines. You can keep several lists for different countries and jobs, and they share the same gigabytes.

  3. 3
    Paste the line into your software.

    The dashboard gives you a line in the host:port:login:password format. In scripts the same address takes the form http://login:password@host:port, and SOCKS5 uses the socks5:// scheme.

  4. 4
    Check the exit.

    Open the My IP page through the line: it shows the country, city and network of the address. Protection check shows whether the site you need lets South African addresses in without a captcha.

Need unlimited: MIX packages are gathered from all over the world, and each line in the CSV list shows its country. Take a test hour for $1 and keep the lines with country = za.

Tips for South African sites

  • Set Accept-Language to en-ZA and the time zone to Africa/Johannesburg: the whole country has just one.
  • In Google set gl=za and hl=en, and pass the results city as query parameters.
  • Delivery depends on the suburb and the four-digit postal code: set them on the site, the line does not change them.
  • For accounts take sticky: one profile, one line. The address holds for at most 24 hours while the subscriber's device stays connected, then the line takes another IP in the same country.
  • Turn off images, fonts and video in your parser: a gigabyte then lasts for thousands of HTML pages.

Questions about South African proxies

01Can I choose Johannesburg or another province?
Not in FLEX: the line selects only the country, and the address can land in any province, most often Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. The region and city are set by FLEX PRO. In the MIX list, lines show the country but no region. Set the suburb for Checkers and the city for Google with the site's parameters.
02Whose addresses does the site see?
FLEX addresses go out through trusted home devices, so to the site this is an ordinary subscriber in South Africa. MIX addresses come from various sources, and each line in the CSV shows its country.
03FLEX or MIX: which to take for South Africa?
FLEX when you need only South Africa and know the volume in gigabytes: rotation, sticky, pay for traffic. MIX packages when traffic is heavy and South African addresses are needed alongside other countries: unlimited, 500 to 9,900 threads, and you filter ZA lines by the country column in the CSV.
04Do South African proxies work with Takealot and Google?
Yes. Rotation swaps the address on every request, so the per-IP limit never fills up. The script from the US proxies page works for local sites too: paste your line and the URL you need, and it shows the share of clean responses, captchas and blocks.
05Are there free UAE proxies?
Yes, the free proxies section has a filter by country and protocol, and the addresses get checked. They are enough for trying a script, but for real work take FLEX lines or MIX packages.

More answers about countries and lines are in the general FAQ, and plans are on the home page.

South African addresses in a couple of minutes

Top up $1, create a line with the ZA geo and test the site you need with it. A month of traffic then costs from $0.55 per GB, unlimited MIX from $50 for 30 days.

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Free South African proxies

An open list of addresses in South Africa with checks and a protocol filter. Fine for trying a script, but for real work take FLEX lines.

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