South Africa in WorldMusic Song Contest

South Africa can participate in the WorldMusic Song Contest. This country located in Africa debuted in the first edition.

History
South Africa was announced as only African country at the first edition. SABC 1 was invited to participate and selected Brendan Peyper to represtent the country. The country finished at the last place. In the next edition, they only received 5 points and again finished at the last place. In Sydney, he country was able to finish at the 8th place. In the next edition, they finished at the 15th place.

Because of a new rule to reduce the number of countries to 15 in the 5th edition, the countries having the lowest average scores over the previous four editions relegated. Because of this, South Africa was not possible to take part in the fifth edition, hosted in Stockholm.