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Top 14 Copper wire and cable manufacturers based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 30 copper wire and cable manufacturers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 828 professional contacts across them, including 175 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers copper wire and cable manufacturers headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 16, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
30Companies
828Contacts tracked
175Verified emails
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The 14 largest copper wire and cable manufacturers based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 14 of 30 copper wire and cable manufacturers based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to copper wire and cable manufacturers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceAlberton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500134 contacts →

Partial evidence

“South Ocean Electric Wire Company (Pty) Ltd (SOEW) was established in 1989 and is a subsidiary of the JSE listed company, South Ocean Holdings Ltd.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2Strong evidenceGermiston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-50088 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Alvern cables is a privately owned business that manufactures a variety of low to medium voltage electrical cables for domestic and industrial use.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
3Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-50081 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Copalcor is South Africa's largest manufacturer of copper, brass and alloy-based semi-finished products and turnkey busbar systems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4Partial evidenceAlrode, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5051 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Continental Cables is lighting up Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
5Partial evidenceBrakpan, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20038 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Global Cables provides robust power cables that facilitate the transmission and distribution of electricity across diverse industries and communities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6Indirect evidenceBrakpan, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20031 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7Partial evidenceMidrand, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5022 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Actsys Specialised Cable Solutions was established in 1991 and has been serving its customers as the primary supplier of optical fibre cables, cable accessories, data and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8Strong evidenceElandsfontein, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,00020 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Aberdare Cables, is the largest cable manufacturer in Southern Africa; specialising in electrical cables for application in power transmission, distribution and generation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
9Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-50012 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“For over 60 years, Meshco has played a quiet, but essential role shaping the backbone of South Africa's infrastructure and security.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-504 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Cape Cables was established in 1991 primarily as a supplier of specialized cables and accessories, optical fibre cables, data and structured cabling systems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12Partial evidenceMidrand, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-504 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Designer Cables (Pty) Ltd, we have always been motivated to provide a service that is above and beyond industry expectation because the clients we serve keep the world…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-503 contacts →

Partial evidence

“N R S Solutions is built on the wealth of experience acquired by its founders in the cable industry since 1976.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14Indirect evidenceGermiston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-2002 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Cabletronics cc was founded by Arno J Du Plessis on the 1st of October 1980.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026

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Copper wire and cable manufacturers based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026
21.1%Verified-email coverage
27.6Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
16.7%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 16, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
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11-50
12
51-200
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201-500
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1,001-5,000
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 30 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among copper wire and cable manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “copper wire and cable manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names copper wire and cable manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among copper wire and cable manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 175 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names copper wire and cable manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many copper wire and cable manufacturers are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 30 copper wire and cable manufacturers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

South Ocean Electric Wire Company Proprietary Limited, headquartered in Alberton, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most copper wire and cable manufacturers?

Johannesburg leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Germiston (3) and Alberton (2).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 175 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 30 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.