South Africa listed companies.
196 publicly traded South African companies, organised by sector and exchange. Each company links into its filings history, KPIs and reporting metadata.
Public-company filings in South Africa are supervised by Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA). Reporting follows IFRS. Filings are most commonly published in English. Major issuers are listed on JSE Top 40, FTSE/JSE All Share and FTSE/JSE SWIX. Calendar and June year-ends both common.
The South African listed-company landscape — JSE, resources, and dual-listed mega-caps
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) hosts approximately 280 listed companies across its Main Board and the AltX growth segment. The institutional universe is structured around the FTSE/JSE Top 40 (40 largest companies by free-float market cap, the primary benchmark), the FTSE/JSE All Share (ALSI) (the broadest market index), the SWIX 40 (Top 40 reweighted by shares held by South African residents, widely used by local fund managers), and sector sub-indices including RESI 10 (10 largest resources companies, a globally watched commodity bellwether). Total JSE Main Board market capitalisation exceeds $1 trillion, driven by a handful of globally scaled mega-caps.
The JSE's defining characteristic — and what makes it analytically unusual among emerging-market exchanges — is its cluster of dual-listed or cross-listed global-scale companies that use Johannesburg as a primary or secondary listing venue alongside London. Anglo American (diversified mining), BHP (resources supermajor, LSE + ASX primary), Glencore (commodities and trading, JSE + LSE), Richemont (luxury goods, JSE + SIX), Compagnie Financière Rupert, and Naspers / Prosus (internet investment, JSE + AEX) are among the names where JSE filings provide a parallel or complementary data stream to London or Swiss primary filings. The Top 40 sector composition reflects this: Mining and Resources, Financials (Standard Bank, FirstRand, Absa, Nedbank), Consumer Staples, and Industrials dominate, with a relatively thin Technology and Healthcare layer by developed-market standards.
FinancialReports tracks every JSE Main Board and AltX-listed issuer, classified by FRCF / ISIC sector and listing segment. Each company page surfaces complete SENS and JSE filing history, ISINs, ticker codes, dual-listing relationships (flagged explicitly for the Anglo American / BHP / Glencore cohort), and IR metadata, refreshed daily from FSCA and JSE sources. The AltX segment, designed for smaller and growth-stage South African businesses, operates under a mentorship model with lighter requirements but full SENS and JSE Listings Requirements disclosure obligations — relevant for analysts tracking domestic South African mid-cap industrial and tech growth names outside the major indices.
The dual-listed dimension makes JSE coverage particularly valuable for global resources and EM research: a quarterly production report or cautionary announcement from Anglo American or Glencore filed on SENS is often contemporaneous with or supplemental to the London RNS version, and the platform exposes both, linked at the company level. New listings, delistings, suspensions, and index reconstitutions flow through the same ingestion pipeline, with first SENS disclosures indexed on the day of admission.
- Listed companies
- 196
- South African issuers tracked
- Stock exchanges
- 0
- —
- Country
- ZA
- South Africa
- Sectors
- 8
- distinct in dataset
Reporting at a glance — South Africa
Regulator, indices, accounting, language- Primary indices
- JSE Top 40FTSE/JSE All ShareFTSE/JSE SWIX
- Accounting standards
- IFRS
- Reporting languages
- English
- Fiscal year
- Calendar and June year-ends both common
Featured South African companies
Top by filing volume| Company | Ticker | Sector | Industry | Filings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
LESAKA TECHNOLOGIES INC
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LSAK | Financial and insurance activities | Other financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding activities | 1,015 |
GOLD FIELDS LTD
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GFI | Mining and quarrying | Mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 998 |
HARMONY GOLD MINING CO LTD
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HMY | Mining and quarrying | Mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 967 |
SASOL LTD
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SSL | Manufacturing | Manufacture of basic chemicals, fertilizers and nitrogen compounds, plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms | 789 |
DRDGOLD LTD
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DRD | Mining and quarrying | Mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 733 |
INVESTEC INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
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47HA | Financial and insurance activities | Activities of trusts, funds and similar financial entities | 499 |
PAN AFRICAN RESOURCES PLC
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PAF | Mining and quarrying | Mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 477 |
Old Mutual Limited
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OMU | Financial and insurance activities | Insurance | 440 |
Standard Bank Group Limited
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SBK | Financial and insurance activities | Monetary intermediation | 395 |
Thungela Resources Limited
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TGA | Mining and quarrying | Mining of hard coal | 315 |
Valterra Platinum Limited
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VAL | Mining and quarrying | Mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 84 |
NEDBANK GROUP LIMITED
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NED | Financial and insurance activities | Monetary intermediation | 63 |
MTN GROUP LIMITED
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MTN | Telecommunications, computer programming, consultancy, computing infrastructure, and other information service activities | Wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities | 62 |
NASPERS LIMITED
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NPN | Telecommunications, computer programming, consultancy, computing infrastructure, and other information service activities | Web search portals activities and other information service activities | 61 |
ABSA GROUP
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ABG | Financial and insurance activities | Monetary intermediation | 59 |
EXXARO RESOURCES LIMITED
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EXX | Mining and quarrying | Mining of hard coal | 52 |
A E C I LIMITED
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AFE | Manufacturing | Manufacture of other chemical products | 49 |
KAP LIMITED
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KAP | Manufacturing | Manufacture of basic chemicals, fertilizers and nitrogen compounds, plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms | 49 |
DISCOVERY LIMITED
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DSY | Financial and insurance activities | Insurance | 47 |
AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS LIMITED
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ARIM | Mining and quarrying | Mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 47 |
CLICKS GROUP LIMITED
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CLS | Wholesale and retail trade | Retail sale of other goods, except motor vehicles and motorcycles | 46 |
KUMBA IRON ORE LIMITED
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KIO | Mining and quarrying | Mining of iron ores | 46 |
THE BIDVEST GROUP LIMITED
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BVT | Administrative and support service activities | Combined facilities support activities | 45 |
SANLAM LIMITED
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SLM | Financial and insurance activities | Insurance | 44 |
SANTAM LIMITED
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SNT | Financial and insurance activities | Insurance | 43 |
Top sectors
- Financial and insurance activities 44
- Manufacturing 38
- Real estate activities 28
- Wholesale and retail trade 20
- Mining and quarrying 19
- Telecommunications, computer programming, consultancy, computing infrastructure, and other information service activities 13
- Construction 5
- Transportation and storage 5
Top industries
- Real estate activities with own or leased property 28
- Activities of holding companies and financing conduits 15
- Mining of non-ferrous metal ores 14
- Non-specialized retail sale 8
- Activities of trusts, funds and similar financial entities 7
- Insurance 7
- Other financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding activities 6
- Monetary intermediation 6
Query South Africa companies via API
Same dataset, programmatic access# All South African listed companies curl "https://api.financialreports.eu/api/companies/?country=ZA" \ -H "x-api-key: $FR_API_KEY"
Filings activity by year
Last 6 years · South African issuers- 2026 1,515
- 2025 905
- 2024 877
- 2023 822
- 2022 843
- 2021 614
Reporting languages
Filing-by-filing distribution- English 11,881
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