Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
South Africa's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 41.7% |
| Without them | 36 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 46 | 32 | 38.9% |
| Collins Sikombe | Zambia | 2 |
| Abdellatif Boya | Sudan | 1 |
| Abel Camará | Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
| Absalom Iimbondi | Namibia | 1 |
| Abuaagla Abdalla | Sudan | 1 |
| Adama Traoré | Mali | 1 |
| Adriano Belmiro Duarte Nicolau | Angola | 1 |
| Ahmed Hamed Mahmoud | Sudan | 1 |
| Aïssa Mandi | Algeria | 1 |
| Aldair | Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 25 Mar 2017 | v Guinea-Bissau | 3–1 | 36′ | pen | Opening goal | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 7 Sep 2013 | v Botswana | 4–1 | 28′ | — | Opening goal | 1–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2013 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 16 Nov 2020 | v São Tomé and Príncipe | 4–2 | came on 71′ | 19 | — | — | African Cup of Nations qualification 2020 |
| 11 Oct 2020 | v Zambia | 1–2 | came on 71′ | 19 | — | — | Friendly |
| 8 Oct 2020 | v Namibia | 1–1 | started, off 52′ | 52 | — | — | Friendly |
| 17 Nov 2019 | v Sudan | 1–0 | came on 71′ | 19 | — | — | African Cup of Nations qualification 2019 |
| 14 Nov 2019 | v Ghana | 0–2 | came on 70′ | 20 | — | — | African Cup of Nations qualification 2019 |
| 13 Oct 2019 | v Mali | 2–1 | came on 76′ | 14 | — | — | Friendly |
| 13 Jun 2017 | v Zambia | 1–2 | started, off 70′ | 70 | — | — | Friendly |
| 28 Mar 2017 | v Angola | 0–0 | came on 74′ | 16 | — | — | Friendly |
| 25 Mar 2017 | v Guinea-Bissau | 3–1 | started, off 67′ | 67 | 1 | — | Friendly |
| 23 Jan 2015 | v Senegal | 1–1 | started | 90 | — | — | African Cup of Nations 2015 · Group stage |
| 19 Jan 2015 | v Algeria | 1–3 | started, off 85′ | 85 | — | — | African Cup of Nations 2015 · Group stage |
| 7 Sep 2013 | v Botswana | 4–1 | started, off 58′ | 58 | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2013 |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.