# South Africa travel advisory: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution

> Official levels only. Not travel or medical advice. The advisory may assign different levels to regions inside the destination.

- State Department level: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
- Advisory date: 2025-05-27
- Source note: Updated to reflect information on driving at night and addition of the terrorism risk indicator.
- CDC travel health notices naming this destination: 0
- Observed level changes recorded by CiteFacts: 0
- Retrieved: 2026-09-10T23:03:54+00:00

## State Department summary

Exercise increased caution in South Africa due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, and kidnapping.

## CDC travel health notices

- No current CDC travel health notice names this destination in its title. This is not a statement that no health risk exists.

## Observed level history

- 2026-09-10T23:02:54+00:00 — Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution — baseline

## Sources and formats

- [Official State Department advisory](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/south-africa-travel-advisory.html)
- [State Department advisory feed](https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml)
- [CDC travel notice feed](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/rss/notices.xml)
- [Canonical HTML](https://citefacts.com/travel/south-africa)
- [JSON record](https://citefacts.com/travel/south-africa.json)