The Blue Flag award is a way of informing local and foreign visitors that accredited beaches are clean, secure and most importantly environmentally safe.
Blue Flag is managed in South Africa by the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa, in partnership with the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and participating coastal authorities under the department's Coast Care programme.
South Africa boasts a large number of beaches that have been awarded the international Blue Flag status, such as:
Eastern Cape
Port Elizabeth
- Humewood Beach
Port Alfred
- Kelly's Beach
Jeffrey's Bay
- Dolphin Beach
Kenton-on-Sea
- Kariega Main beach
Kwazulu-Natal
South Coast
- Lucien beach near Margate
- Margate
- Marina/San Lameer
- Ramsgate
- Trafalgar beach
- Umzumbe (Pumula)
Western Cape
Gordon's Bay
- Bikini Beach
Cape Town
- Camps Bay Beach
- Clifton 4th Beach
- Muizenberg Beach
- Strandfontein Beach
- Mnandi Beach
- Llandudno
Hermanus
- Grotto Beach
- Hawston Beach
- Kleinmond beach
Mossel Bay
- Santos beach
- Hartenbos beach
Plettenberg Bay
- Robberg 5 beach
- Keurboomstrand
Stilbaai
- Lappiesbaai Beach
Witsand
- Witsand at the mouth of the Breede River
West Coast
- Silwerstroomstrand
