Greyhound Bus bookings South Africa

The Greyhound Bus has a network of cities within South Africa and its neighbouring countries, between which bookings can be made.

Booking a Greyhound Bus ticket

Website bookings

Bookings of Greyhound Bus tickets can be made at www.greyhound.co.za

Phone number bookings

Bookings of Greyhound bus tickets can be made by phoning 083 915 9000, but note that calls are charged at R2.85 per minute (at least when this was written, it could have changed).

Email Enquiries

Email Greyhound at enquiries@greyhound.co.za

Greyhound sales offices

Greyhound has sales offices for booking bus tickets in Johannesburg, Midrand, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, East London, Nelspruit, Harare, Port Elizabeth, Kroonstad, Maputo and Montrose.

Greyhound bus departures and destinations

Eastern Cape	Windmill Park Moore Street Quigney East London	Tel: (043) 743 9284 Fax: (043) 743 0061
	Simpson Building Shop nr 4 Ring Road Greenacres 6045 Port Elizabeth	Tel: (041) 363 4555 Fax: (041) 363 3559
	71 Madeira street Opposite Steve Motors Umtata	Tel: (047) 531-0603 Fax: (047) 532 2288
Free State	Tourist Centre Park Road (next to Municipal Swimming Pool) Bloemfontein	Tel: (051) 447 1558 Fax: (051) 447 1556
	Shell Ultra City Kroonstad	Tel: 056 212 5527 Fax: 056 213 2852 gclkroonstad@absamail.co.za
Gauteng	Park City Transit Centre Johannesburg Station Johannesburg	Fax: (011) 276 8550
	Cnr Polly & Church street Johannesburg	Tel: (011) 336 9184
	Caltex Star Shop N1 Highway Midrand Johannesburg	Tel: (011) 315 1458 Fax: (011) 315 7533
	1928 Building next to Pretoria Station Pretoria	Tel: (012) 323 1154 Fax: (012) 323 1294
KwaZulu-Natal	Motor Coach Terminal New Durban Station N.M.R. Avenue Durban	Tel: 031 334 9702/09 Tel: 083 915 9000 Tel: 011 276 8500 Fax: 031 309 7746 Fax: 011 276 8550
	267 Burger Street Pietermaritzburg 3201	Tel: 033 345 3175 Fax: 033 345 3172
Limpopo	no bus stops
Mpumalanga	Old Mutual Place Louis Trichardt Street Opposite Hotel Promenade Nelspruit	Tel: (013) 753 2100 Fax: (013) 753 2414
North West	no bus stops
Northern Cape	Tickets for Africa 121 Bulfontein Road (next to Civic Centre) Kimberley 8301	Tel: (053) 832 6040 Fax: (053) 831 8248
Western Cape	1 Adderley Street Cape Town	Tel: 083 915 9000 or Fax: (011) 276 8550
Zimbabwe	Blue Arrow Reservations Unifreight House 73A Fife Street Bulawayo	Tel: (002639) 889078
	Road Port Cnr Robert Mugabe & 5th Street Harare	Tel: (002634) 720 801 Fax: (002634) 25 3228

Greyhound depots

Greyhound has bus depots at Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Harare, Maputo.

The Travel Pass

Alternatively to buying a point-to-point bus ticket, a travel pass may be booked. Booking a travel pass allows unlimited travel over a certain number of days with as many stop overs as desired (i.e. similar to the Baz Bus service).

Luggage allowance

Each fare-paying Greyhound passenger may take a maximum of 2 suitcases not exceeding thirty kilograms in total mass, and each not exceeding 30cmx80cmx60cm in dimension. Luggage is carried at own risk.

Unaccompanied minors

Children under 12 years of age may not travel alone on Greyhound buses.

Mission of Greyhound busses

The mission of Greyhound busses is to "maintain and expand the business by providing service of superioir (sic) quality with a personal touch to customers, ensuring the requisite rewards for all our stake holders".

Greyhound bus's owners

Greyhound Coach Lines (Proprietary) Limited is the legal entity. Like Citiliner bus, Greyhound bus is part of the "Unitrans Passenger" operating division of Unitrans Holdings (Pty) Ltd, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steinhoff International Holdings Limited. The managing director of Unitrans Passenger is Nico Boshoff, and the division manager of Citiliner and Greyhound is Leon Engelbrecht. Greyhound is a member of the Southern African Bus Operators Association (SABOA).

Unitrans annual reports

Untrans Passenger extract from 2005 annual report

Unitrans 2005 annual report

Unitrans 2004 annual report

Unitrans 2003 annual report

Unitrans 2002 annual report

History of Greyhound buses in South Africa

2006	The Star newspaper's readers vote for the Greyhound bus as being their favourite bus company.
1984	Greyhound starts a bus service between Johannesburg and Durban.

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