List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa

This is a list of British high commissioners to the Republic of South Africa. From 1961 to 1994 South Africa was not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and the British head of mission was an ambassador.

Besides the high commission in Pretoria, the UK also maintains a consulate-general in Cape Town.

The Republic of South Africa is the historical successor to the Union of South Africa, which came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony and Orange River Colony. It included the territories formerly part of the Boer republics annexed in 1902, South African Republic and Orange Free State. The Union of South Africa was a dominion of the British Empire which became sovereign (along with other dominions) in 1931. The Union became the Republic of South Africa in 1961; the country left the Commonwealth of Nations at that time but rejoined in 1994.

From 1910 to 1931 the Governor-General also held the office of High Commissioner: see Governor-General of the Union of South Africa