South Africa

South Africa made its debut in the fourth edition of the contest. Their best result to date is the sixth place in the fourth edition with Shakira and Freshlyground and the song "Waka Waka".

Contestants

 * XX on Semi-finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to the fact that the country was an automatic qualifier or that the edition didn't have semi-finals.
 * XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.