List of South African ambassadors in Chile

The seat of the embassy was Buenos Aires until 1980, later Santiago de Chile .

Appointment accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited by the government	Leave post
May 14, 1948	Stephan François Du Toit	Ministre plénipotentiaire	Jan Christiaan Smuts	Alfredo Duhalde	28 Sep 1951
29 Sep 1951	Eugene Kevin Scallan	Ministre plénipotentiaire	Daniel François Malan	Carlos Ibáñez del Campo	Jan. 3, 1954
Feb 25, 1954	William Henry Evered Poole	Ministre plénipotentiaire	Daniel François Malan		Apr 29, 1956
Apr 30, 1956		Mission abroad closed	Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
March 23, 1958	GC Nel	Chargé d'affaires	Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd	Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez	Nov 10, 1962
1962	Johan Christiaan Holm Maree	June 24, 1965 - Jan 14, 1969: Ambassador to Canberra			Nov 10, 1962
Nov 10, 1962		Mission abroad closed
Jan. 19, 1966	Robert Harrowen Coaton			Eduardo Frei Montalva	Aug 12, 1970
Aug 26, 1970	Robert Abraham Du Plooy		Jacobus Johannes Fouché	Salvador Allende
1975	Hendrik Albertus Geldenhuys		Johannes de Klerk	Augusto Pinochet
1979	Norman John Best	1977 Canada 15 Sussex Drive, Ottawa	Marais Viljoen
1981	John Raymond Dutton		Marais Viljoen
1984	Antoine Michael Müller		Pieter Willem Botha
1987	Pieter Willem Van der Westhuizen
1992	León Malan Brand		Frederik Willem de Klerk	Patricio Aylwin Azócar
1995	Casper SC Venter		Nelson Mandela	Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
2000	Timothy Karikari Maseko	(* May 3, 1935 in Bethal, in the former Eastern Transvaal; † December 31, 2006) South African High Commissioner to Namibia	Thabo Mbeki	Ricardo Lagos Escobar
2004	Victor John Zazeraj			Ricardo Lagos
Jan. 2013	Hilton Fisher	(* December 1, 1966 in Cape Town )	Marais Viljoen	Sebastián Piñera

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan François Du Toit (* 1897) The members of the du Toit family work in viticulture on the Cape. Francois, a Huguenot ancestor of the family in South Africa, founded a farm in 1691 near what is now Wellington, South Africa
2. ↑ Gert Cornelius Nel (* April 8, 1911, † December 24, 1983 in Johannesburg) Son of Gert Cornelius Nel , married Mary Rita Fox, had three children.
3. ↑ Timothy Karikari Maseko ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Hilton Fisher ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://archivo.minrel.cl/ ( Memento from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )