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PA / FSCA register: licensed insurers in South Africa
VerifiedVerified against the PA / FSCA register, checked 2 Sept 2026.
The PA / FSCA register for South Africa as the directory holds it: 140 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.
Snapshot
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded
PA / FSCA register rows
All 140 entities.
Regulatory intelligence: South Africa
Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.
- Supervisor
- Prudential Authority (SARB) and Financial Sector Conduct Authority PA / FSCA
- Regime
- Twin Peaks; Insurance Act 2017; SAM solvency
- Register source
- Prudential Authority licence-conversion register (Appendix A Life, Appendix B Non-life), Insurance Act 2017; post-2020 changes annotated
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · PA licence-conversion Appendix A/B
Recorded market events
Assupol acquired by Sanlam (2024); 1Life acquired by Clientele (2024); Constantia group in liquidation (2022); 3Sixty Life under curatorship
Effect on directory: Annotated in Notes
Governing legislation
- Financial Sector Regulation Act 9 of 2017 · Establishes both authorities
Section 32 establishes the PA within SARB; sections 41–42 provide its Prudential Committee. Section 56 establishes the FSCA and section 60 its Executive Committee. Sections 33 and 57 set their respective objectives. Linked text is the original 2017 Gazette, not a certified current consolidation.
- Insurance Act 18 of 2017 · Prudential insurance & microinsurance framework
Provides the prudential framework for insurance and introduces a microinsurance regime. Commenced on 1 July 2018, subject to specified exceptions. The government page records the 2021 amending Act; establishing the regulators is a separate function of the Financial Sector Regulation Act.
Verification log
Draft of 67 replaced by 140 licensed entities incl. all cell captives, captives, reinsurers and Lloyd's; Constantia/3Sixty status annotated
For B2B teams and AI agents
The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/south-africa.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/south-africa/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "south-africa" }, orlist_insurerswithcountry,limitandoffsetfor paged rows. - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
- Dataset version
2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.