Mossel Bay and George - 045 - : Central region: Queenstown - 046 - : Southern region: Grahamstown - 047 - : Mthatha / most of previous Transkei - 048 - : Northern region: Steynsburg - 049 - : Western region: Graaff-Reinet 05 : Free State and Northern Cape - 051 - : Central and southern region: Bloemfontein, and Aliwal North in E Cape - 053 - : Kimberley, eastern part of Northern Cape, far west of NW province - 054 - : Upington, Gordonia region - 056 - : Northern Free State: Kroonstad - 057 - : Northern Free State: Welkom (Goldfields region) - 058 - : Eastern Free State: Bethlehem 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: Before 1992: 0 61 xxx xxxx After 1992: 09 264 61 xxx xxxx After Jan 2007: 00 264 61 xxx xxxx 07 : Cellular - 0710 - : MTN (spill-over from 083) - 0711 - 0716 - : Vodacom (spill-over from 082) - 0717 - 0719 - : MTN (spill-over from 083) - 072 - : Vodacom (spill-over from 082) - 073 - : MTN (spill-over from 083) - 074 - : Cell C (Cell C has allocated 0741 to Virgin Mobile) - 0741 - : Virgin Mobile as of June 2006 1 - 076 - : Vodacom (spill-over from 082) - 078 - : MTN (spill-over from 083) - 079 - : Vodacom (spill-over from 082) 08 : Special services - 080 - : Toll-free - 081 - : Current unused (?), was car phones - 082 - : Cellular: Vodacom - 083 - : Cellular: MTN - 084 - : Cellular: Cell C - 085 - : Cellular: Reserved for a 4th operator and for USAL license holders - 086 - : "Sharecall" and premium-rate services - 0866 - : Premium-rated Fax to email service - 087 - : Value-added services (VoIP 2 among others) - 088 - : Pagers and Telkom voicemail - 089 - : Maxinet, for polls and radio call-in services Note that since 10 November 2006, mobile number portability was introduced in the cellular market. The cellular prefixes as above are therefore not strictly applicable anymore although they remain mostly unchanged.