Chiefs of Mission for South Africa
- Ralph James Totten (1929-)
- Ralph James Totten (1930-1937)
- Leo John Keena (1937-1942)
- Lincoln MacVeagh (1942-1943)
- Thomas Holcomb (1944-1948)
- North Winship (1948-)
- North Winship (1949-1949)
- John George Erhardt (1950-1951)
- Waldemar John Gallman (1951-1954)
- Edward Thompson Wailes (1954-1956)
- Henry Alfred Byroade (1956-1959)
- Philip Kingsland Crowe (1959-1961)
- Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (1961-)
- Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (-1965)
- William Manning Rountree (1965-1970)
- John Gavin Hurd (1970-1975)
- William Garton Bowdler (1975-1978)
- William Brockway Edmondson (1978-1981)
- Herman W. Nickel (1982-1986)
- Edward Joseph Perkins (1986-1989)
- William Lacy Swing (1989-1992)
- Princton Nathan Lyman (1992-1995)
- James A. Joseph (1995-1999)
- Delano Eugene Lewis (1999-2001)
- Cameron R. Hume (2001-2004)
- Jendayi Elizabeth Frazer (2004-2005)
- Eric M. Bost (2006-2009)
- Donald Henry Gips (2009-)