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Eswatini → South Africa: visa and length of stay

SZ → ZA
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Eswatini → South Africa: no visa needed
30
Continuously per entry

How many days can you stay in South Africa?

Short answer

30 days

no visa needed; counting details below

Continuously per entry
30 days
How the days are counted
per calendar year, resets on 1 January
Does leaving reset the counter
No — the days keep counting in the same window

The maximum stay is 90 days per year for ordinary passport holders; this limit does not apply to non-ordinary passport holders.

Source: Entry and permitted-stay rule (en.wikipedia.org)

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South Africa: days of stay calculator

Count your allowed days in South Africa from your entry and exit dates — based on your passport and the counting rule that applies.

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  • Entry: no visa needed; permitted stay — 30 days.

Can you bring your own vehicle?

Maximum term
183 days
How the term is counted
per entry
All import rules for South Africa

The same country with other passports

Length-of-stay rules come from several sources. Some are verified by the OpenVan.camp Editorial team against official sources and show a verification date. The rest are extracted from open sources, most often Wikipedia, and are shown with a source link and the date they were retrieved. Vehicle import rules are shown only once verified. The underlying visa requirement matrix is the passport-index-data dataset (MIT licence), updated 17 February 2026.

Reference data, not legal advice. Rules change without notice — check with the consulate or at the border.

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