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South Africa proxies

Q: How do I get a South African IP address?

Add -country-za to your proxy username and connect to gw.proxonym.com:8000 (HTTP) or :1080 (SOCKS5). Every request then leaves from a residential IP in South Africa. Drop the session parameter to get a new IP on each request.

Q: Can I target a specific city or province in South Africa?

Yes. Append -city-johannesburg for Johannesburg, or -state-gauteng for Gauteng. Use either a city or a province, not both. If no IP matches, the gateway returns a 502 error and you can widen the targeting.

South African e-commerce runs mostly in English, with Takealot, Amazon.co.za, Makro and Checkers Sixty60 competing on rand pricing and delivery speed. South African residential IPs let teams monitor those offers, local Google results and the ads served in Johannesburg, Cape Town or Durban.

Residential IPs
City targeting
HTTP & SOCKS5
Sticky sessions

731KResidential IPs
691KOn GB plans
40KOn unlimited plans

Proxy types

Proxies available in South Africa.

Residential proxies691K South African residential IPs, rotating or sticky, with city-level targeting.from $0.74/GB Unlimited residential40K IPs in South Africa on unmetered plans, priced by bandwidth.from $33.25/day

Mobile proxies, ISP proxies, Datacenter proxies, Dedicated datacenter: not hosted in South Africa yet. Residential IPs cover South Africa with the same credentials.

Targeting

Target South Africa down to the city.

Write the location into your username. Combine it with a session to keep the same South African IP for up to 120 minutes.

-country-zaAny IP in South Africa
-country-za-state-gautengGauteng
-country-za-city-johannesburgJohannesburg
-country-za-session-a7k2Same IP across requests

Connect from South Africa

# Rotating South African IP on every request
curl -x http://gw.proxonym.com:8000 \
  -U "USERNAME-country-za:PASSWORD" \
  https://api.ipify.org

# Same IP in Johannesburg for 30 minutes
curl -x http://gw.proxonym.com:8000 \
  -U "USERNAME-country-za-city-johannesburg-session-a7k2-lifetime-30:PASSWORD" \
  https://api.ipify.org

Geo-targeting docs Integration guides

Cities & provinces

Popular targets in South Africa.

Cities

Johannesburg-city-johannesburg
Cape Town-city-cape_town
Durban-city-durban
Pretoria-city-pretoria
Gqeberha-city-gqeberha
Bloemfontein-city-bloemfontein
East London-city-east_london

Provinces

Gauteng-state-gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal-state-kwazulu_natal
Western Cape-state-western_cape
Eastern Cape-state-eastern_cape
Limpopo-state-limpopo
Mpumalanga-state-mpumalanga

Local websites teams monitor

Takealot
Amazon.co.za
Makro
Checkers Sixty60
Property24

For google.co.za results in South Africa, the SERP API returns parsed JSON with gl=za&hl=en.

How do I get a South African IP address?

Add -country-za to your proxy username and connect to gw.proxonym.com:8000 (HTTP) or :1080 (SOCKS5). Every request then leaves from a residential IP in South Africa. Drop the session parameter to get a new IP on each request.

Can I target a specific city or province in South Africa?

Yes. Append -city-johannesburg for Johannesburg, or -state-gauteng for Gauteng. Use either a city or a province, not both. If no IP matches, the gateway returns a 502 error and you can widen the targeting.

How many South African IPs are available?

Our network counts about 731K residential IPs in South Africa: about 691K on GB plans and 40K on unlimited plans. Pools change throughout the day as peers connect and disconnect.

Which proxy type should I use for South Africa?

Residential proxies are the safest choice for well-protected local websites. See the pricing page to compare plans.

Is it legal to use South African proxies?

Using a proxy is legal in most places, including for collecting public data, testing and ad verification. What matters is what you do with it: you must respect local laws, the terms of the sites you access and our acceptable use policy.