Landing Point · ZA South Africa
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) | Active |
| Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) | Active |
| SAFE | Active |
| SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-01 through 2026-07-14 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6431 | control probe | 114 | 289.6 ms |
| #2501 | control probe | 73 | 311.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 15 | 240.7 ms |
| #6954 | control probe | 14 | 308.4 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 13 | 415.7 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 13 | 22.4 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 236.6 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 269.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 223.6 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 206.8 ms |
Mtunzini, South Africa is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in South Africa. 4 international cable systems come ashore here, and together they reach 14 other countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Mtunzini is a small coastal town that is situated almost exactly halfway along KwaZulu-Natal's coastline in South Africa approximately 140 km north of Durban. Its 4 systems give Mtunzini direct international reach to Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique and beyond (14 countries in all), the role that justified building international cable here rather than routing through an inland neighbour.
The roster spans 19 years of build-out, from SAFE (2002) to Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) (2021). Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) (4,854 km and in service since 2021), Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) (10,500 km and in service since 2010), SAFE (13,500 km and in service since 2002) and SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia (15,000 km and in service since 2009). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
With 4 independent systems, South Africa has real redundancy through this point: no single cable cut isolates it from the destinations they share. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.
GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 122 route anomalies across 68 cable systems worldwide. None of the systems landing here has triggered a route anomaly in that window, a stability signal in its own right for a hub of this size. This section updates automatically the moment that changes, as it already has for the 68 other systems flagged across our coverage.
From the GeoCables probe network, best-case round-trip time to South Africa endpoints runs about 200 ms from Minsk, about 215 ms from Tbilisi and about 228 ms from Jerusalem. These are paths into South Africa from our own vantage points, not a global average, and they shift as operators re-route.
The largest access networks in South Africa sit behind this coastal capacity: Telkom SA Ltd. (12.5% of users), Vodacom (11.3% of users), MTN SA (10.2% of users) and Dimension Data (7.9% of users). See the full national picture for South Africa.
In short, Mtunzini, South Africa carries international traffic for South Africa across 4 independent cable systems reaching 14 countries on 3 continents, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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