Visa On Arrival (VOA) means that on arrival, you will need to queue up at a visa counter, apply and pay for a visa, which gets pasted into your passport on the spot, before you go to immigration. Hence you will receive a visa to enter the country’s airport once you land. No pre-application is required unless stated otherwise. You can just buy a ticket of the destination and take a flight. But you must carry your valid passport, once you land, there will be an immigration check where they will check your passport and put an entry stamp in your passport (there will be a little visa fee) for the same.
Here are the Visa On Arrival countries for South African passport holders.
| No. | Country | Duration of stay |
| 1. | Armenia | 21 days |
| 2. | Bolivia | 90 days |
| 3. | Cambodia (eVisa) | 30 days |
| 4. | Cape Verde | – |
| 5. | Comoros | – |
| 6. | Ivory Coast (eVisa) | 30 days |
| 7. | Djibouti | – |
| 8. | Ethiopia | – |
| 9. | Ghana | – |
| 10. | Guinea-Bissau | 90 days |
| 11. | India (eVisa) | 30 days |
| 12. | Iran | 30 days |
| 13. | Jordan | 30 days |
| 14. | Kyrgyzstan | 30 days |
| 15. | Laos | 30 days |
| 16. | Madagascar | 30 days |
| 17. | Maldives | 30 days |
| 18. | Marshall Islands | – |
| 19. | Mauritania | – |
| 20. | Nepal | – |
| 21. | Oman | – |
| 22. | Palau | 30 days |
| 23. | Qatar | – |
| 24. | Rwanda | – |
| 25. | Samoa | 60 days |
| 26. | Seychelles | 1 month |
| 27. | Sri Lanka | – |
| 28. | Timor-Leste | 30 days |
| 29. | Togo | 7 days |
| 30. | Turkey | 3 months |
| 31. | Tuvalu | 1 month |
| 32. | Uganda | 3 months |
| 33. | Somalia | 30 days |
| 34. | Tunisia | 1 month |
| 35. | Burundi | 30 days |
