No scheme
Shosholoza Meyl discounts
There is no pass or railcard scheme here. What exists in South Africa instead is set out below.
The issuer's own terms
The detail below is quoted from the issuer's own page in the language they publish it in. We do not translate another company's conditions, because a translated condition is a condition we have changed.
We could not read the issuer's own page for this scheme, so the detail below comes from what could be established elsewhere and should be checked with the issuer before you rely on it.
- What it covers
- Shosholoza Meyl (PRASA's long-distance intercity rail service) does not appear to sell any card, season ticket or subscription pass. Search-indexed content from the operator's own booking domain (res.prasa.com) describes only fare-category discounts off standard one-way ticket prices: a senior citizens' discount during off-peak periods (Tourist Class only, not Economy Class), a scholars-in-uniform discount, a group discount, and a bulk-purchase discount.
- Who can buy it
- Senior discount: age 60 and over, off-peak travel, Tourist Class only, ID required at purchase. Scholar discount: school pupils travelling in uniform. Group and bulk discounts apply to parties booking together or buying in bulk, with no age or residency restriction stated.
- How long it lasts
- Not applicable, these are per-ticket fare discounts rather than a time-limited pass or card with its own validity period.
- What it costs
- not verified. No stable percentage or price figure could be confirmed directly from the operator's site because res.prasa.com and shosholozameyl.co.za and prasa.com all refused connection from this research session (network-level connection refused on every attempt); the discount categories above are drawn from search-engine indexing of the operator's own pages rather than a direct page fetch, so treat the percentages as unconfirmed pending direct access.
- Seat reservations
- Long-distance Shosholoza Meyl services are reservation-based bookings for a specific train, date and class (Tourist or Economy), as with any point-to-point ticket; there is no separate reservation regime for a pass because no pass exists.
- What catches people out
- This entry could not be independently verified by direct fetch of the operator's site in this session (repeated connection refused errors on res.prasa.com, prasa.com and shosholozameyl.co.za), so sourceVerified is false. The discount details given are second-hand via search snippets attributed to the operator's own domain, not a page this session actually loaded. No evidence of any season ticket, monthly pass or tourist rail pass was found for South Africa; treat the absence of such a scheme as the likely honest answer, but flag to a human reviewer that the primary source itself was unreachable.
SourceOpen the page at Passenger Rail Agency of South AfricaRead on the issuer's own page on 2026-09-06. Terms and prices change, so check before you buy.
What this does to an Orlero price
Nothing, yet. Our fares are point to point and are not adjusted for a pass or a card you hold. Use this page to work out whether the scheme is worth buying, and use search to find out what the same journeys cost without it.
Countries this covers
Plan a trip from here
A pass only pays for itself against the journeys you actually make. Ask Ori for the trip and it will price the point to point fares our network holds, which is the number a pass has to beat.