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 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 25% |
| Without them | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Abdallah Said | Egypt | 1 |
| Abdou Razak Traoré | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Adam Kwarasey | Ghana | 1 |
| Adama Guira | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Ahmed Duiedar | Egypt | 1 |
| Ahmed El Shenawy | Egypt | 1 |
| Ahmed Fathi | Egypt | 1 |
| Alain Traoré | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Ali Gabr | Egypt | 1 |
| Amr Gamal | Egypt | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
Nothing here.
| 6 Sep 2016 | v Egypt | 1–0 | 7′ | — | Winning goal | 1–0 | Friendly |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 15 Nov 2016 | v Mozambique | 1–1 | came on 53′ | 37 | — | — | Friendly |
| 11 Oct 2016 | v Ghana | 1–1 | came on 59′ | 31 | — | — | Friendly |
| 8 Oct 2016 | v Burkina Faso | 1–1 | started | 90 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2016 |
| 6 Sep 2016 | v Egypt | 1–0 | started | 90 | 1 | — | Friendly |
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.