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South Africa stock market historical data

234 listings across JSE. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

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JSE trading day, Monday to Friday

09:00 to 16:50 SAST07:00 to 14:50 UTC

FTSE/JSE Top 40, priced in ZAR, settling T+3.

1887
Founded in Johannesburg (Sandton)
280
Listed companies
234
Symbol pages on DataCedar

South Africa key facts

  • South Africa's stock market trades on JSE, priced in ZAR; its headline indices are FTSE/JSE Top 40.
  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange, founded 1887 in Johannesburg (Sandton), trades 09:00 to 16:50 SAST, closing auction to 17:00, Monday to Friday, regulated by Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA).
  • DataCedar covers 234 South Africa listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About JSE

Full name
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Location
Johannesburg (Sandton), South Africa
Founded
1887
Regulator
Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)
Trading hours
09:00 to 16:50 SAST, closing auction to 17:00
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Africa/Johannesburg
Currency
ZAR
Settlement
T+3
Ticker convention
Three letter codes (NPN, AGL, SOL, FSR); prices quoted in cents
Headline indices
FTSE/JSE Top 40
Listed
about 280 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 1 trillion (2025), the largest in Africa
  • Founded during the Witwatersrand gold rush; still the largest exchange on the continent.
  • The FTSE/JSE Top 40 and All Share are the benchmarks; Naspers and Prosus have dominated the index weight.
  • Prices are quoted in South African cents rather than rand.
  • JSE licenses historical data through its market data services; daily closing prices are published.

About South Africa market data on DataCedar

South Africa trades on JSE, priced in ZAR, and its headline indices are FTSE/JSE Top 40. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 234 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

South Africa stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/4SI/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesSouth Africa exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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South Africa market data

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