Cape Town Post Office
Post Offices are open Monday to Friday 0800 - 1630 & Saturday 0800 - 1200. Postage stamps are available in cafes and shops.
Cape Town Telephones
Public phones are widely available and painted either bright blue or green. The blue public phones take coins while the green public phones work with phone cards. Most public phones advertise the closest sale point.
Phone cards are available in denominations from R10 to R200. To make an international call from South Africa dial 09, drop the first 0 of the number and dial the rest of the number. To make an international call to South Africa, dial 27 followed by the area code (drop the 0 of the area code) and number.
Should you wish to make a collect call nationally, dial 0020. To make a collect call internationally dial 0900. To make local and national enquiries or to find a number, you may call 1023. For international enquiries dial 0903. South Africa 's mobile phone providers are MTN, Vodacom and Cell C and all operate on GSM digital. It is relatively inexpensive to purchase a local Sim card.
