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 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 33.3% |
| Without them | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Abdelkarim Kissi | Morocco | 1 |
| Abdeslam Ouaddou | Morocco | 1 |
| Alain Gaspoz | Benin | 1 |
| Anicet Adjamossi | Benin | 1 |
| Damien Chrysostome | Benin | 1 |
| Emmanuel Ekwueme | Nigeria | 1 |
| Garba Lawal | Nigeria | 1 |
| George Abbey | Nigeria | 1 |
| Houssine Kharja | Morocco | 1 |
| Isaac Okoronkwo | Nigeria | 1 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 4 Feb 2004 | v Morocco | 1–1 | 29′ | — | Opening goal | 1–0 | African Cup of Nations 2004 · Group stage |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 4 Feb 2004 | v Morocco | 1–1 | started | 90 | 1 | — | African Cup of Nations 2004 · Group stage |
| 31 Jan 2004 | v Nigeria | 0–4 | started | 90 | — | — | African Cup of Nations 2004 · Group stage |
| 27 Jan 2004 | v Benin | 2–0 | started | 90 | — | — | African Cup of Nations 2004 · Group stage |
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.