Zola Clinic Abortion Contact Details

We cannot give you a verified telephone number for Zola Clinic. The Gauteng Department of Health publishes no facility contact directory, so every Zola Clinic number in circulation comes from a commercial directory, and those directories do not even agree on the address. Rather than pass on a number we cannot stand behind for something this important, here are the routes that can be verified.

What the law provides

Termination of pregnancy is legal in South Africa under the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act. At a designated public facility the service is free, you do not need a referral from a doctor, and you do not need anyone else to consent, including a partner or, for a person under eighteen, a parent. The service is confidential. Not every clinic is a designated facility, which is why the first call matters.

MSI Reproductive Choices South Africa

MSI, formerly Marie Stopes South Africa, is a registered provider running thirteen centres across six provinces. These details are published on its own site.

Contact centre: 0800 11 77 85
WhatsApp: 082 889 5708
Website: mariestopes.org.za
Support office: 021 422 4096, 5th Floor Summit House, 85 Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town

The contact centre is the route to use. It can tell you which centre is nearest, what a consultation involves and what it costs, and it deals with this question every day.

Through the public system

Ask at any public clinic or community health centre for the nearest designated facility; staff are required to refer you even if that facility does not provide the service itself
A district or regional hospital can also refer you into the right service
Take your identity document and, if you have one, your clinic card

The adverts on lamp-posts are illegal and dangerous

South Africa has a large illegal market advertising abortion on street poles, in classified adverts and through WhatsApp numbers, often promising same-day pills, cash prices and no questions. These are not clinics. The people behind them are not registered health practitioners, the medicines are frequently counterfeit or the wrong dose, there is no facility if something goes wrong, and women have died. The pattern is consistent and easy to recognise.

A mobile number and no fixed address, or a room rather than a registered facility
Cash demanded upfront and no receipt, invoice or patient record
A promise to terminate at any gestation, which no legitimate provider makes
No consultation, no examination and no follow-up arrangement

If you have taken something bought this way and you are bleeding heavily, in severe pain or feverish, go to a hospital casualty department immediately or call 10177 for an ambulance. Post-abortion care is legal, free at public facilities and given without judgement or police involvement.

If you are treated badly

A health worker may refuse to perform the procedure on conscience grounds but may not refuse to refer you or to give you emergency care
Raise a complaint with the facility manager and ask for it in the complaints register
The Office of Health Standards Compliance investigates public health establishments, and the Health Professions Council handles individual practitioner conduct