South Africa Targeted Financial Sanctions

The South African FIC sanctions list, largely based on UN Security Council sanctions.

South African sanctions are largely based on the UN Security Council sanctions list, with some additions.

Sanctions impose restrictions on activities that relate to particular countries, goods and services, or persons and entities. Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS) measures generally restrict sanctioned persons and entities from having access to funds and property under their control and from receiving financial services in relation to such funds and property. In order for these sanctions to be given effect, the FIC Act requires Accountable Institutions to freeze property and transactions pursuant to financial sanctions imposed in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

Data overview

Entities:
Total1,751
Searchable874
Targets874
Entity types:
People681
Legal entities193
Countries:
53 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) · South Africa

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) exists to apply measures outlined in the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (Act 38 of 2001), which are intended to make the financial system intolerant to abuse. The FIC does this by working towards fulfilling its mandate of assisting in identifying the proceeds of crime, combating money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default
Information:www.fic.gov.za
Source data:tfs.fic.gov.za · XML
Tags:list.sanction · sector.financial
Coverage:added · frequency: daily · every 6 hours
Last processed:2025-08-29 12:45:01 · v. 20250829124501-oja
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities1.83 MB
names.txtTarget names text file72.84 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format596.19 KB
source.xmlSource data782.19 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON1.84 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV264.86 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
GRAN GRIFLegal entity
G9 Fanmi e AlyeOrganizationHaiti
Abdel Rahman Juma BarkallaPersonSudan
Luckson ElanPersonHaiti · China
Victor ProphanePersonHaiti · China
Abubakar SwallehPersonSouth Africa · Zambia · Uganda
Osman Mohamed Hamid MohamedPersonSudan
Joseph WilsonPersonHaiti · China
Renel DestinaPersonHaiti · China
Johnson AndrePersonHaiti · China
Ahmad Mahmoud HassanPersonTanzania · DR Congo
Hakizimana ApollinairePersonRwanda · DR Congo
Bernard BYAMUNGUPersonCongo-Brazzaville · DR Congo
Rukunda MichelPersonDR Congo
Vitel'Homme InnocentPersonHaiti · China