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Top 25 Public relations staffing firms based in South Africa

Name: Public relations staffing firms based in South Africa
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026 317 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 317 public relations staffing firms headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 3,601 professional contacts across them, including 367 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers public relations staffing firms 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 29, 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 29, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

317Companies

3,601Contacts tracked

367Verified emails

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The 25 largest public relations staffing firms based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 317 public relations staffing firms based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to public relations staffing firms: 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	KELLY	Indirect evidence	Gallo Manor, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	201-500	522 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We focus on the permanent and temporary recruitment of general administrative and office support personnel together with sales and service professionals for leading African firms…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
2	Quest Staffing Solutions	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	10001+	382 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Quest Staffing Solutions is the leading white-collar recruitment company in South Africa and Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
3	DAV Professional Placement Group	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	274 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As one of Africa’s leading recruitment firms, our place in this world is to help others find theirs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
4	Meropa Communications	Strong evidence	Sandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	84 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Meropa Communications is South Africa's leading Public Relations agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
5	SD Recruitment SA PTY LTD	Partial evidence	Bellville, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	79 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We offer a full suite of recruitment services including; Executive Search, Temporary Hire, Permanent Placements and Outsourced Staffing Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
6	Career Circuit PTY LTD	Indirect evidence	Gauteng, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 2010, the company today provides a competitive edge in the job market and industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
7	PR Worx	Strong evidence	Fourways, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	34 contacts →
	Strong evidence “At PR Worx, we consider public relations a crucial business tool that works to tell the right people about your company’s products and services or ideas, your philosophy and your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
8	Razor PR	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Razor PR was founded in January 2020 as part of the Up & Up Group (then the M&C Saatchi Group).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
9	Secondments	Partial evidence	Rivonia, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	51-200	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Secondments is a 100% black-owned Level 1 organisation, we believe in creating synergy with our clients by building sound business relationships which enhance our understanding of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
10	Tribeca Public Relations	Strong evidence	Illovo, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Tribeca Public Relations is B-BBEE level 1, independent, Johannesburg-based agency with an honest and challenging approach to PR.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
11	Bydesign South Africa	Strong evidence	Gauteng, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We're a full-service communications, content, public relations, and digital agency dedicated to delivering real business results across the marketing, advertising, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
12	Takora Human Capital	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Partial evidence “TAKORA is a distinguished and highly respected recruitment and staffing agency headquartered in South Africa, specializing in the placement of exceptional talent across a broad…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
13	AD Talent Africa	Indirect evidence	Gauteng, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are level 2 BEE and niched in the digital communications industry, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town from where we service all of South Africa, Africa, the Middle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
14	Interdot Solutions	Indirect evidence	City Of Tshwane, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “An agile boutique Recruitment Agency offering reliable and quality recruitment services and candidates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
15	Cletech Recruitment A DIV Of Cletech Holdings PTY LTD	Indirect evidence	Northriding, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Cletech Recruitment has been at the forefront of shaping the leadership landscape in South Africa’s largest organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
16	Basadzi Media And Personnel PTY LTD	Indirect evidence	Pretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Basadzi is a partner of choice for organisation seeking to plan and implement comprehensive and integrated media and communications campaigns, having leveraged the competency…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
17	JNPR	Strong evidence	Sandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Strong evidence “JNPR is one of South Africa’s leading professional services public relations agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
18	AFPOL	Indirect evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Where Recruitment is about People.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
19	AJ Personnel Recruitment Services	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AJ Personnel, established in 1987, specialises in recruiting Permanent, Contract and Temporary staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
20	Logico Creative Solutions	Strong evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Logico Creative Solutions is a public relations and integrated marketing communications agency based in Durban, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
21	Resource Recruitment Employment Agency	Indirect evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “RESOURCE recruitment is a owner managed agency based in the Upper Highway area that has been helping candidates and client's place successful positions around the Greater Durban…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
22	On-Point PR	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We create tailor-made communication strategies for a growing roster of private and public sector clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
23	CME Recruitment	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CME Recruitment was established in 1998 with a view to utilize the Company’s Local and International experience in Recruitment, Search Consultancy and Human Resource Management to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
24	Resolve Communications	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Resolve Communications is a specialist public relations and public affairs agency with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
25	Cvlc Communication	Strong evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 29, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Professional, Persistent and Passionate about all things Public Relations - that's the CVLC team!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: public relations staffing firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names public relations staffing firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of public relations staffing firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name public relations staffing firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Public relations staffing firms based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026

10.2%Verified-email coverage

11.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

25.2%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg

Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

252

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 317 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 public relations staffing firms, 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 “public relations staffing firms”. 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 public relations staffing firms), 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 public relations staffing firms, 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, 367 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 29, 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.

Public relations staffing firms by metro

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 public relations staffing firms, 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 public relations staffing firms are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 317 public relations staffing firms 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?

KELLY, headquartered in Gauteng, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most public relations staffing firms?

Johannesburg leads with 80 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (46) and Pretoria (21).

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 367 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 317 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 29, 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.