Free Tools & Calculators for South Africans

Plan which South African cycling race to enter, from your first 28km to a 1000km Karoo ultra. Filter the calendar by discipline (road, mountain bike, gravel), time of year, province and how big a commitment you want, then match each race to your level. Honest cut-off times and effort notes on every event, the detail other race lists skip.

Plan which South African running race to enter, from a free weekly parkrun to the 90km Comrades. Filter the calendar by surface (road or trail), distance, province and time of year, then match each race to your level. Every event tells you whether you need a qualifier or a licence and how tight the cut-off is, the detail other race lists skip.

Follow South African schoolboy rugby across the whole year, the Easter festivals like Wildeklawer and Kearsney, the great traditional derbies from Grey College and Affies to the Paarl rivals, and the FNB Youth Weeks topped by Craven Week. Filter by type of event, time of year, province or your own school, and see where to watch each one on SuperSport Schools.

Work out the average pace you need for any Comrades medal, from Vic Clapham to Wally Hayward, set a goal finish time with a halfway target, or estimate your finish from a recent race result. Built for the 2026 Up Run from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, the 99th Comrades on 14 June 2026.

All upcoming games for the Springboks, Bulls, Stormers, Sharks and Lions, across URC, Champions Cup, Nations Championship, Tests and more. Filter by competition or team.

All upcoming games for Bafana Bafana, Mamelodi Sundowns, Orlando Pirates, Kaizer Chiefs and more, across the World Cup, PSL, MTN8, Nedbank Cup and AFCON qualifiers. Filter by competition, type or team.

All upcoming games for the Proteas and CSA franchise teams, covering Tests, ODIs and T20s both international and domestic. Filter by format, type or team.

All upcoming games for the SPAR Proteas and the Telkom Netball League franchises, plus the Commonwealth Games and international test series. Filter by competition or team, with calendar export.

A directory of keto and low-carb friendly doctors, dietitians, and certified coaches across South Africa. Organised by province so you can find someone near you. Covers Western Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape.

Enter your baby's date of birth and get the full South African (EPI-SA) immunisation schedule turned into real calendar dates. See exactly when each clinic visit falls, which vaccines are given that day, and which one is coming up next. Tick off each dose as it is done, and print or save the list for the clinic card. You can also add the upcoming visits to your phone calendar, with an offline reminder set for the morning before each one. Switch on the commonly recommended private extras, such as chickenpox, hepatitis A, flu and the meningococcal vaccines. And if your child has fallen behind, a second toggle checks which doses may be overdue for their age.

Search for your condition, or browse common conditions by body system, and find out whether it is a Prescribed Minimum Benefit or one of the 26 Chronic Disease List conditions, and exactly what your medical scheme must pay for by law. Every scheme has to cover these in full, on every plan, paid from the risk pool and not your savings. There is also a checklist to spot when a scheme is short-changing you, and the steps to complain to the Council for Medical Schemes.

Find a campsite close enough for a real weekend in the bush. Tell it whether you are leaving from Joburg or Pretoria and how far you want to drive, then filter by the kind of place you fancy, a Big 5 reserve, a mountain with rock pools, a river for rafting, a dam for watersports, or a hot springs family resort, plus whether you need a power point or somewhere that suits young kids. Every site is one I checked, with honest notes on what it is really like, the drive time from both cities and a link straight to the official booking page.

Want the most time off for the fewest leave days? South Africa has a handful of public holidays that sit just one or two working days from a weekend, and bridging them turns an ordinary weekend into a long break. This planner ranks the smartest leave plays for 2026 and 2027, shows exactly which days to book and how many days off you end up with, and lets you send each plan straight to your calendar. It handles the tricky rules for you, moving Sunday holidays to the Monday and flagging the Saturday ones you simply lose, and it even includes the likely 4 November 2026 election day with an honest reminder to confirm it first. New Optimise my year mode goes further, taking your whole leave allowance for a year and working out the exact dates to book, whether you want one long holiday, as many long weekends as possible, or a balanced mix, and it plans around any blackout dates you cannot take off.

Thinking of moving somewhere better in South Africa without leaving the country? This finder ranks real semigration towns against what actually matters to you, a well run municipality, affordable housing, closeness to a big-city job market, good private healthcare, reliable water and a nearby airport, then shows the evidence behind each one. Governance uses the latest Auditor-General audit outcome for each town's municipality, the distances to the nearest city, airport and private hospital are worked out for you, and for crime it links you straight to the live police station data rather than inventing a score. Set your priorities and it builds your shortlist, with an honest note on the catch for every town.

Flying out of OR Tambo and not sure whether to take the Gautrain, to drive and pay for long stay parking, or to grab an Uber? It is harder to work out than it sounds, because the train charges every passenger a separate fare while driving and parking is one price for the whole car, and an Uber is its own thing again, so the cheaper option flips with how many of you are going and how long you will be away. This calculator does the full sum all three ways, the petrol there and back plus the real ACSA parking tariff, every train fare plus the cost of getting to the station, and an Uber both ways, then tells you which wins, by how much, and the trip length where it would flip. It uses the official Gautrain fares and OR Tambo parking rates, flags the quirk that makes four days of parking cheaper than three, and is honest about the things money does not show, like the train not running late at night.